LIQUOR IN THE KING COUNTRY.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 312, 16 November 1910, Page 5

LIQUOR IN THE KING COUNTRY.

Some feeling has been shown in regard to Friday's debate granting oi European? in the long Country the right to vote on licensing issues, and more particularly with reference to the passage-at-arms between Mr Poole and Mr Jennings. The member for Taumarunui has received the following telegram "The Auckland City Prohibition League protests against your insult to City West electors. —McDermott, secretary." Mr Jennings replied as_ follows: "Your League is under a misapprehension. I know a number of City West electors personally, who are friends of a lifetime, and therefore [ would not insult them. What I did resent was the inuendo by Mr Pcole re my motive in bringing the amending clauses forward on behalf of my constituents at their repeated requests by petition, meetings, etc.'-' Amongst many congratulatory telegrams received by Mr Jennings was one from Mr George Higgins. Auckland:—"Good, my lord I admire a man with moral courage." Also one from Mr A. L. D. Fraser. ex-M.P., as follows:—"You deserve the thamcs of honest democrats, not the spurious, on your appeal for the voice o-f the people on license in King Country. The salient point is that the prohibition of the sale of land and the sale of liquor in the Rohe Potae was simultaneous. The Crown first broke the former, and by so doing introduced Europeans into the restricted area. On this social-political question they are disfranchised. In the name of democracy. Why? Again, are there not licensed houses within this sacred but artificial boundary?"