LICENSING CAMPAIGN IN AUSTRALIA.
XS V PROHIBITIONISTS AT WORK. OUEENSLAND LOCAL OPTION POLL OF 1917 INVALID. (Received April 23. 7.30 p.m.) SYDNEY. April 23. in anticipation of the forthcoming poll on prohibition and the permanent six o’clock closing of hotels in New South Wales the Alliance is organising a forty weeks’ campaign. The State has been divided into areas, to each of which an army of. special speakers and preachers will devote :i week. An important, decision has been # given bv the High Court in eotinecFion with Llie Queensland local option poll in 1917. The poll was taken on ihe same Saturday as the election for tin* Federal Senate, and resulted in favor of a reduction of hotels in certain districts. The point taken was whether the State authorities overrode the Federal law by taking a poll in conjunction with the !'<'dcral elections. The Court held that Federal law is paramount and the poll is invalid. —L. P.A.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LII, Issue 5462, 24 April 1920, Page 5
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