LAXITY OF LIQUOR CONTROL

Evening Star, Issue 24139, 9 March 1942, Page 2

LAXITY OF LIQUOR CONTROL

DEMAND BY ALLIANCE (P.A.) WELLINGTON, March 7. The executive of the New Zealand I Alliance last night carried a resolution calling the attention of the Prime Minister to a message from the Bishop of 1 .Aotearoa congratulating the executive on the attitude it had adopted with regard to “ laxity on the liquor question,” and stating what was true of the pakeha was also true of the Maori. The motion'informs the_ Government that the executive has received numbers of representations urging it to call unceasingly on the Government to take such immediate action for curtailing and controlling the liquor traffic and its evils as will be in keeping with Labour’s ideals of the moral uplift of the people which were outlined when the party was put in power, and in keeping with its numerical strength and avowed antagonism to monopolies. In the grave national crisis which the country faces the urgency of the matter in the interests of the efficiency of the war effort is emphasised. Attention is drawn to the move in Australia *or the control of breweries and hotels for the duration, and to the announced intention of the Federal Prime Minister, Mr Curtin, to transfer labour from all uneconomic industries to spheres that will contribute towards victory.