COUNCIL OF CHURCHES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19197, 13 June 1924, Page 8

COUNCIL OF CHURCHES.

MEETING OF DOMINION EXECUTIVE. LIQUOR TRADE RESOLUTIONS. (Peb United Press Association.'. WELLINGTON, June 12. The Dbminion Executive of tho Council of Churches of Christ mot hero. Representatives were present from every area. A resolution was carried —“That thi s cone mitten of representatives of the Associated Churches of Christ enters its emphatic protest, against any further racing permits being grunted, calls upon the Government to enforce the taw against bookrnnking, and further asks that early opportunity be given to the people to veto the totalisator.” A resolution was also passed against Corporate Control, “a proposition which is being circulated in the interests of the lit|iior traffic.” The resolution declares th;d —(1) Corporate Control would be pnt.irelv unacceptable as a solution of the problem of the liquor traffic; (2) if Cor iiorate Control should become operative it. would he the means of more securely shackling the liquor traffic upon the community without giving an assurance of a.nv abatement of its evTs; (3) there has not yet boon taken in New Zealand an equal and unequivocal vote on continuance of the liquor traffic, in that temperance reform has always been handicapped by cither An artificial maierltv re- hv three issues on the ballot nnpor; (41 (hat provision should be marie for a two-issue ballot paper for use at the next licensing noil, and members of Parliament are hereby urged to use their best endeavour to secure this measure of justice. It was further resolved that copies of those resolnlions be sent to the Prime Minister. Mr Wilferd. and Mr Holland.