LICENSING REFORM.

Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 320, 22 July 1925, Page 6

LICENSING REFORM.

BRANCH ASSOC lAT lON. IN .UK 1.1 A). I NO. On .Monday afternoon, the Air R. Hogg, provincial organiser ol the New Zealand Licensing Reform Association. paid a visit- to Keihiing for the purpose ol forming a h ran eh ol the organisation in this electorate. Air Hogg briefly explained the objects of the Association.; which was comprised of those who. while opposed to or dissatisfied with the conchlions under which the liquor trade-was | at present conducted,• were also equally opposed to Prohibition. 'The association sought to have placed before the people at the triennial ballot as : a third- issue, instead of State C ontrol, the system of corporate control as originally .drafted, by a , number -of.. Anglican - clergymen ’ and ‘made " 'tlie" subject of a petition "to Parliament. A braneli. was formed in Ueilding, tlie following gentlemen being elected to the Committee: Rev. U. H. Petrie, ALA. (Chairman), and Messrs 11. J. 'Bailey, H. B. Burrell, E. H. Fisher, and G. 11. Wayniouth, with power to add to their number. Arrangements are being made for public meetings to lie held in the I near future in older to bring the aims and objects of the association | prominently before the public.