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GOVERNOR AND PROHIBITION. BY CABLE-PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received Aug 13, 12.45 p.m. ADELAIDE, Aug. 13. Speaking at the Licensed Victuallers’ Association’s annual dinner last week, Governor Bridges, in the course of a speech, is reported to have said: “I think we all distrust the camouflage and corruption of prohibition. It is foreign to our nature, although liti does give us a laugh now and then.” He referred in humorous vein to the agelong controversy on whether wine or water was the better beverage. The matter was referred to in the Assembly, Mr Price asking the Premier whether he had anything to report regarding Governor Bridge’s speech." The Premier replied that the Government had taken the earliest opportunity of intimating to Governor Bridge his constitutional position, as-liis Majesty’s representative, on controversial subjects. It was understood that the Governor had no thought of hurting the susceptibilities of any section of the community, and that evidently a meaning was read into his words which was not intended.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 13 August 1924, Page 9
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164INDISCREET. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 13 August 1924, Page 9
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