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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19250, 14 August 1924, Page 7

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A GOVERNOR ON PROHIBITION

INCIDENT RAISED IN PARLIAMENT.

Pr*M Aa«oci»tion —By Tal« graph—Copyright.

ADELAIDE, August 13. Speaking at the Licensed Victuallers’ Association’s annual dinner last week, the Governor (Sir George Bridges), in Die course of a speech, is reported to have said ; “I 'think we all distrust the camouflage and corruption of Prohibition. It is foreign to our nature, although it does give us a laugh now and then.” His Excellency referred in a humorous vein to the age-long controversy whether wine or water was the better beverage. The matter was referred to in the Assembly, Mr J. L. Price asking the Premier (Sir H. N. 'Harwell) whether he had anything to report regarding the speech made by Sir George Bridges. The Premier replied that the Government had taken the earliest opportunity of intimating to Sir George Bridges the constitutional position of His Majesty’s representative on controversial subjects. It is understood that the Governor had no thought of hurting the susceptibilities of any section of the "community, and that evidently a meaning was read into ms words which was not intended. SERVING LIQUOR AT TABLE. PROHIBITIONISTS PERTURBED. ' SYDNEY, August 13. The Prohibitionists are seriously perturbed over a recent court finding in favour of a licensee being able to serve liquor at table to his guests after the closing hour. They claim that such a finding would enable designing persons to frustrate ’the purposes of the early closing law. They consider the matter so important and farreaching that they have asked the Minister of Justice to make it the subject of an appeal to the High Court. Mr Ley has promised to submit the matter to the law authorities.