TEMPERANCE ALLIANCE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXIX, Issue 9986, 15 March 1893, Page 5

TEMPERANCE ALLIANCE.

- [r/?E Peeks Association.'! AUCKLAND, March 14. At the annual meeting of the New Zealand Alliance to-night, the report showed that the expenditure had been £l9 in excess of the receipts. Sir W. Fox was elected President. Sir Robert Stout submitted a motion expressing sympathy with the Sydenham Licensing Committee in the decision of the recant appeal, and regarding that decision as an additional reason for granting the direct popular veto. In the course of his remarks. Sir R. Stout said they were bound to accept the decision as correct law, but he considered that the prohibition party bad gained a great victory. Had it not been for this decision the House of Representatives would have told them they bad all they wanted, but now they could approach Parliament and say that the matter lay not with the Licensing Committee but with the Chief Justice. Ho urged that the local option question should be made a plank in the platforms of both the Liberal and Conservative parties. The motion was agreed to. The proposal to hold a direct veto convention in Wellington during the next session of Parliament was warmly approved.