LICENSING REFORM ASSOCIATION

Evening Star, Issue 22194, 23 November 1935, Page 12

LICENSING REFORM ASSOCIATION

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —The New Zealand Licensing Reform Association has awakened from its seven years’ sleep, and is again urging the electors to vote State Control of the liquor traffic. Who is the New Zealand Licensing Reform Association, .and what has it tried to reform during the past seven years since the last licensing poll was taken? Did it attempt to remodel anything connected with the liquor traffic or its law-breaking ways? I contend that the liquor traffic is the most law-breaking business in any community, and most certainly needs remodelling or removing from the face of the earth; but once the licensing poll is over the New Zealand Licensing Reform Association will put its head under its wing and go to sleep for another four years, while liquordom carries on ns usual, with after-hour trading, etc. However, most intelligent electors know that State Control is really the liquor traffic with a mask on, and that every vote east for State Control is a vote counted for continuance of a traffic which is being outlawed by all people

who wish for the betterment of humanity, notwithstanding America’s repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment, repeal being carried by 35 per cent, of the American people. The Prohibition Party may lose many battles, but will not lose the last one. So cheerio! —l am, etc., Searchlight. November 22.