LIQUOR LAW REFORM.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20598, 24 June 1930, Page 9

LIQUOR LAW REFORM.

NEW SOUTH WALES EFFORTS. QUESTIONS FOR CANDIDATES. [from our own correspondent.] SYDNEY, Juno 11. The latest to hurl bricks, figuratively, at tho Bavin Government are tho prohibitionists. Their indictment against it is that it has failed to honour the promises mado by its members and especially those made at tho timo of the liquor referendum in 1928. Tho "'drys" contend that they had reason for belioving that if the referendum failed, so far as prohibition was concerned, the Government would legislate to eliminate what the alliance and a big body of Church opinion regard as tho more objectionable features of the traffic. Tho liquor reformers ask, in effect, if the promises mado two years ago have not been fulfilled, what reliance can they place on politicians, who, at tho impending State election, try to sweeten them with fresh pledges of fidelity to tho cause of liquor reform. At the coming election tho "drys" are going to ask candidates to pledge tliemsolves to quilo a lot of reforms which they are hardly likely to achieve —among them tho elimination of aU wine licences and tho closing of all liquor bars on Saturday afternoons.