NO-LICENSE CONVENTION.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 12991, 4 June 1904, Page 10

NO-LICENSE CONVENTION.

AUCKLAND, .Tune 5. The No-liranse Convention, held to-day, was attended by 200 delegates of the Auck Lim! Province, resolutions were passed that a voll shcm'.d nut be declared void unless it."was pr'ovrtl that the result docs not cxprra iho will of the doctors, and » new poll should' be taken where tho former noil is declared void: that oflicers committing or'pciniiiting « breech of tlso law in the conduct of polls should l>o made dircwly rt'spiii'.iil.'le.anil subjected to a substantia"', penalty; iliat provision should ho made for a competent court , lo hear the petition. The convention pledged itself to oppose candidates for Parliament not- sulisoribiin; to tho above reiolutioiis, and they aiso passed a resolution urging Maoris to he given a free hand to stamp out tho sly gross-selling in the Native'districts j further, that (lie powers of the Maori Councils should bo extended in this direction. It was resolved that the attention of the Kovcrnmeiii bo called lo the infraction of Iho section rf Iho act providing for the. destruction of local .option ballot papers alter the lapse of six months; that a system of lantern slide temperance lectures ho lnaiusuralcd; llmt n ..yatomatic collection of .-übscrintioiis towards defraying rapenscs o! next local option poll he undertaken, il'ho convention resolved to undertake to immediately raise within the Auckland Provinco one-fourth of the costs of tho Privy Council appeal case, amf on a collection being taken up the sum of £102 16', \yas sulserilicd in thn room. A motion affirming the principle of a bare majority was postponed for 12 months.