NO-LICENSE PARTY.

Otago Witness, Issue 2785, 31 July 1907, Page 69

NO-LICE NSE PARTY.

COLONIAL CONFERENCE. WELLINGTON, July 18. Over a hundred delegates attended the Colonial Conference of the No-license party, Mr A. S. Adams presiding. It was stated that the whole of the Alliance debit was extinguished. It had been necessary to find £2000, and this was now in hand;' and there were further amounts to come in," which would provide a credit balance for, future work. A long discussion took pladeC on the principles and! policy of the party and the desirableness of a colonial vote= upon the liquor question. The equity ofi ■settling any question submitted to the; popular vote by a simple majority was re-, affirmed. At to-night's meeting of the New Ze&v land Alliance Conference a visit was re-> ceived from the Hon. Mr M'Nab. He sfcul he had long taken an interest in the oausev. It was commonly asserted 1 that a politician held whatever views he had simply as al means to personal advancement. Thie was not true in his case, as he had been a nolicense worker long Before he became ti' politician. ' A resolution was carried that in future the Alliance should also be the executive of the annual conference. A committee was eet up to consider the need of establishing 1 first-class inebriates* homes. I A resolution was also carried with? I acclamation expressing appreciation of the, ' great and successful effort made by the general secretary to clear off* the Alfianc* debt. i Mr A. 8. Adams was re-elected president'