“DISTASTEFUL!”
PLEDGED PROHIBITION ISTS
ALLEGED CONTROL BY ALLIANCE president.
(Special To The Times). WELLINGTON, Oct. 2. What Mr. Lysnar regarded as “a very distasteful and objectionable' phase of the Licensing JLJili was stressed-by him when tiiat measure was before the House and..his. strict-, uresi have met with widespread apr proval.
Mr. Lysnar said that, during the discussion in committee it was openly stated that the secretary of the New Zealand Alliance had claimed that his organisation had control of tf(e ‘House. That -statement had not been in any way questioned as far as he was aware and, during t,ue whole of the sittings Mr. Todd, who, he understood was Dominion President of the New Zealand Alliance or no-license party had been present on the floor of this House. The objectionable feature, he took it, -was to see the leading members of the no-license party in the House continually going backwards and forwards to him—going to lum, he assumed for instructions. Just, before the last amendment was moved by the member for Waitemata for the re-commiital of the Bill for reconsideration of clauses 19 and 37, as: ,he had observed that both that, member and the member for Tara- ' naki were in close conference witn Mr. Todd. Ho had drawn attention to the' fact, and asked them if they had got their instructions and they, had come away with a smile. The member for Patea had 1 been up for his instructions & few minutes before. He had then asked in a voice which he considered that both Mir. Todd and that member- could hear, whether he - had got' his instructions. He felt rightly, or wrongly, that that last amendment and the hold-up of this House by the member for Waitemata and the member for Taranaki was not really their action at all; it was that of the president of the New Zealand Alliance. Mr. Forbee: “What shall we do with them?” 1 Mr. Lysnar: “It is for you to decide what you will do with them, and for the electors •of Ntfiv Zealand. I wish merely to place the facts, as I understand them, on record .
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10711, 8 October 1928, Page 5
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