LICENSE V. NO-LICENSE.
Sir, —Mr. Smaftfield in your issue thia. morning admits the justice of my correction, but he proceeds with another misleading assertion. lie says that a majority of the , voters who polled in November, 1905, were in favour of no-license, and then he quoted the official figures thus: Number of voters, 16,548; votes for no-license, 8202. Surely, sir, such an assertion "is not borne out by these figures. Then Mr. Smallfield in attempting to justify his previous statement sets himself up as a register of the public mind, but publicly assuming that; the elec-' tors who did not record their votes were equally divided on the question. By what right has any individual to publicly adopt such an attitude? If it is fair for Mr. Smallfield to do so, it is equally fair for me to assume that every vote the no-license supporters could exercise was polled, and that nearly all those who refrained from voting ■ did so because they were satisfied to let things remain as they are, and I think this the more likely contention to be correct. 1 , The foregoing deals with one portion of Mr. W. J. Maedermott's letter the other Ido not propose to discuss, at present. - ~ • March 25. J. S. Palmer. I
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13708, 26 March 1908, Page 3
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