LIQUOR ON SHIPS

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 September 1923, Page 5

LIQUOR ON SHIPS

— AN GLO-AMEBIC AN N EGOT.IA.TION S and N.Z. Cable Association;) WASHINGTON, September 19. The British reply to the United States proposal for a reciprocal agreement on tne ships’ liquor question and liquorsmuggling, was received today, it is described as “in general not sympathetic to the proposals.” The British Government intends to present the question 1 to the Imperial Conference in London in October. The officials view the communication as leaving open the possibility of negotiating a double-barrelled treaty to curb rum-runnilng, also to facilitate legitimate liquor shipments in foreign bottoms. There is no attempt to disguise the fact that the British Government indicated general disapproval of the plan, and raised objections to it. LABOUR M.P. CRITICISED. PERTH, September 20. The Liquor Trades Union protested against the advocacy of prohibition by Mr Thomas Walker, Labour member for Kanownh, during his recent visit to America. The Executive ruled that the party platform advocates State control, and also a State-wide referendum on prohibition, with a bare majority and compensation. So long as members subscribed to State control they were perfectly entitled to adopt a pro-or-anti attitude on. the question of prohibition, according to their beliefs.