LIQUOR REFERENDUM.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 4 September 1928, Page 5

LIQUOR REFERENDUM.

LICENSES 'TO BE ISSUED IN CANBERRA. VICTORIA TO HAVE A POLL SHORTLY. Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) 'SYDNEY, Sept.. 3. As a result of the vote the Federal Government had decided immediately to issue licenses for the sale of liquor at Canberra, which has hitherto been a dry area. .A Melbourne message says that the Victorian Government has announced a poll throughout the State 'do decide whether liquor licenses should ibe abolished will ibe taken in 1930. LONDON 'COMMENT. A SIGN OF 'THE TIMES. LONDON, .Sept. 3. “The result of the Australian prohibition poll is a sign of the times unfavourable to prohibition,’’ says the “Daily Telegraph’’ in an editorial. “It proved a disastrous failure where tried in Europe; in the United .States it is a law without the force of law; and in Australia it has been more heavily defeated in the States .consulted than the advocates ever anticipated. “Apparently the Common wealth will be spared the experience of Canberra, which proved, as in Canada and New Zealand, that enforcement in provinces and districts is more farcical than it is if nation-wide. Meantime, drunkenness jis visibly declining' wherever there is a minimum of interference with private habits. Upon this more than upon schemes of regulation believers in true temperance found their hopes.-'’ RESULT WAS EXPECTED REASON FOR DEFEAT OF PROHIBITION. (By Telegraph —Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Sept. 3. Referring to the interim figures of the New South Wales liquor referendum, Mr Charles Todd, president of the New Zealand Alliance, said the result wa§ expected. 'Compensation to the trade was the principal reason for the defeat, and again there hail not been the same educational work in Australia as in New Zealand or A merica. A TRADE VIEW. PROBABLE EFFECT IN NEW ZEALAND. WELLINGTON, Sept. 3. Mr Percy Oovle, official representative of the United New Zeaaind Licensed Victuallers’ Association, said today that, the result of the New South Wales referendum evas very satisfactory. A substantial majority against the “drys” was anticipated. ■Asked if he thought the result would have any bearing on the forthcoming referendum in New Zealand, Mr 'Coyle stated that lie certainly thought it would. Such a decisive .majority proved conclusively that prohibition was not wanted in New South Wales, and it. would (Bo .outside the realm of practical .polities to 'have continuance in New Zealand. Tie believed the genera! public of New Zealand, in the light of events .in America and the rejection of prohibition in New South Wales, ’would not hesitate to express themselves accordingly at the coining poll.