LIQUOR QUESTION.
NATIONAL EFFICIENCY BOARD'S • iBECOMMENDATION. (United tress Association.) AUCKLAND, July 9 _ The opinion expressed by the Hon. G. W. Russell, that the leaders of the liquor trade and the executive ot the New Zealand 1 Alliance should agree, if indeed they had Mint already agreed to a poll of the electors on the hquor ques- . ILv on-the proposal oi the Jjrtional Efficiency. Board,■.was submitted to Mr A! SI chaii-rnan oi the AuckSnd.ProvinciarCounc.l of the trade, Ski. to the-Rev. P. ■S, SmaUfield, president of -Mr Bankart dwniissed the matter by ..remarking that 3SK statement could &* *»™ *"£ natedfrom the imagination or the -Minister, and was quite inaccurate. ine Rev Mr Smallfield, while declaring that the Alliance was opposed to the payment of compensation, said pared to assent to such a payment as an Lt of expedience, and » a ™ea™ abolishing the trade. lie iNaiionai ffiSncy Board regarded the payment S compensation as an immediate means of finally disposing of the tn.de and the leaders of P the Alliance ielt that they Wno right to oppose this ..Me*, « had therefore decided to support the board. _ MiAefc' ;~- - \ ,__
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 165, 10 July 1918, Page 8
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183LIQUOR QUESTION. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 165, 10 July 1918, Page 8
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