LIQUOR LEGISLATION.

Mataura Ensign, 18 March 1909, Page 3

LIQUOR LEGISLATION.

Mrirch lz. Tlid ropuH wa* lo-day. sho'.'.'inK th•){ 111 e present ?er w lsij) was 1855. GrotiliuUion \vn> ■■'{ the sploiulid juiviuh.o niai!>- in (din local option pull. The volt* for no-ikvnse in the Dominion. il \vi\< htntfd, had stfx'.'lilv and Hip las': poll ■:&vn th.' magniiicod majority of ftVMI ovi'f (heir opponpnl:-. "\W hup" and l>e]irvc," Hip report, "thai mem-bc-rs of i.he W.C.T.C. will all puv <ihh; holp lo ihr i'or Ht<- roaiovaJ nf fin l (In disability I'rum < ti<e temp'Tam:- rcctinn <>{' Hit,- community. Nov,- thar Hie no-liepnsc party is fining in infuK-MX'e and number* ii ib limo lo claim i'rom VarTaimcnt Iho of tlm Dominion option by a bunmajority. Til" union eondemn l -; the entablishmoiU of oanlcim> at military "amps and i;i some of llio orderly rooms, tin I it also make'- a protest against drinking on. trains and tlx- pbo-Mrdins' )f liquor :ul\orti-ouioi?.t- at roihvay stations."

Referring lo ill."* tubuicf I''con-d ruction iho rc-poil new appointments arc satisi'arl<.jy I o •ho progressives or in the pari.v 0)' reform would lie far from the truth. in i'act. Sir Joseph Ward lo hi»ve -,'onc out of hi 1 - wny to <diow hi.; coniompi fnv who sland for tlu> <WfciH'! 1 of all thaf- i-- het in 11m* jndioual lifo."