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Wonder-workers amongst' worms! W W.QRAI FJGS: -All chemist* • tnr j stArea "* ' THESE ARE THE QUESTIONS FORWARDED* BY THE NO-LICENSE PARTY TO EVERY CAN DIDATE STANDING FOR PARLIAMENT. NEW ZEALAND ALLIANCE QUESTIONS EOll SUBMISSION TO CANDIDATES AT THE GENERAL ELECTION, 1928. IF ELECTED--. J.. Will you support the deletion, ol «/" State Piircnase and. Control from • the ballot paper, and the submission or National'Continuance and National Prohibition only? . Answer. 2. Will you endeavor to maintain the right of the electors to determine the national licensing issue on the pnucip.e of the sunpie majority Answei. .3. Will you oppose any provision foi an extension of time Between the?.Licensing Bolls?• • Answei. 4. Will you oppose any extension of the period at present provided by law between the carrying of National Prohibition and its joining into operation? snswer. you oppose any inci aciUties for the sale sumption of alcohol? "Vnswer. you oppose, re/istrib lifenses ase of d con- / ion foi pro for iMnses beyond the permitted by existing 8. Will|»you endeavor to niaifilain the pact made with IE/LHaoris prohibiting the alcoholic liquor in th*. Answer. Signatur Date NOTSfiT: For the information of the electros, the answers given to these questions will be published in the Press. •

Those ’ are the questions which every candidate is asked to answer and send in to the Alliance, DO YOU REALISE' WHAT THEY MEANT They mean that the No-License Party is attempting to CAPTURE PARLIAMENT by means of those questions, IRRESPECTIVE OF THE RESULT OF THE' PEOPLE’S REFERENDUM on the licensing’isstiev If ; they can get enough members pledged to'give favorable ■ answers’ to those cUiestions they hope to be able to ■ get*’ the 1 ; legislation they - want through Parliament, and the wishes of the . people,' as declared through the licensing poll, can go hang. ; Another, point. The note at the foot says that for-the information of the', electors the answers to these ouestions.. will be published ,in the Press. Not one of these answers by any candidate has been pub'ishbd in the Press in nnv part of Now Zealand. although tlie election is to bo held in less .than a week’s time. We venture .to' soy that hol .one will K*> published before the election. It looks as though the Now Zealand Alliance prefers to keep the electors in the dark as to,the of its pledge-gating ©forts. ***

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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10739, 9 November 1928, Page 6

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Page 6 Advertisements Column 2 Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10739, 9 November 1928, Page 6