LIQUOR REFERENDUM.
NEW SOUTH WALES DEMAND.
BARE MAJORITY ISSUE.
A. and N.Z.
SYDNEY. Oct. 2.
A conference of five hundred delegates representing temperance . organisations adopted the following resolution:—"Thai, this conference, representing every Protestant Church and exery temperance society .in New South Wales, urges the Government to honour . its pre-election pledge and give the people an immediate referendum. It also urges that the Liquor Law Amending Bill should preserve to the* people the principle of tho bare majority; and that a . poll be taken every three years on a day other than election day." Tho conference also urged provision to maintain local option, • which was suspended during the war, and decided to reiterate its unchanged hostility to compensation. But it was prepared to accept the verdict of the people; on compensation on the terms on which the Reduction Board is at present /providing for delicensing hotels, provided the ballotpapers contain certain questions—first, "Arc you in favour of prohibition? Yes or no;" and the second, ''Are you in favour of compensation 'i Yes or no."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18520, 3 October 1923, Page 9
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173LIQUOR REFERENDUM. New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18520, 3 October 1923, Page 9
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