N.Z. ALLIANCE.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 April 1923, Page 3

N.Z. ALLIANCE.

THE ANNUAL MEETING. [hy a 1:1, unit at> it — i*t:i! fttnss association. J WI.I.I.INGTON. April 12. At the annoal meeting ol the New Zealand Alliance. Mr John *L Boyds of (Twistelmreh was elected Bresidetil. fn the thiiTy-scveiith annual repo:L re fere me was made to the state ol Hie rolls prior to the election. Many examples Wdv cited of duplication and other mi-lake-. The Bay ol 1 ’li*ntv roils were | articulerly allud'd 10. Hm claim was made that the prohibition I a use had not gone back, hilt had increased by thirty thousand votes, and is actually tlie hirge-t vote ever cast

on any subject in New Zealand. It was Min ply defeated and held in cheek lev the tin,loin,tcntii- lituur,* of the

ballot paper. \\'e infer that less titan mm third of the :>.*).727 of state purchase and control voters or say twelve thousand

were out and out emitimianee voters who prevented three hundred twenty live thousand voters saving New Zealand from the liquor trallie. The time has mine when prohibition voters must exert pressure to have removed from the ballot paper the i-sue (gUif Controli which is not interestmg to even six per cent of the voter-, and yet which bellies ami defeats our noble aims.