LIQUOR REFERENDUM.
ALLEGATIONS AGAINST THE STOREY GOVERNMENT.
Electric Telegraph—Press Association Copyright. (Austral>an-N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received this day, at 11.10 a.m.) Sydney, This Day. Mr Fuller commenting on the Government attitude towards the liquor referendum says the Storey Government starxls as a representative of vested interest® of the liquor traffic which under the conditions conducted is productive of much misery, poverty, and unhappiness and fills the gaols. It ia responsible for terrible crimes and breaks up happy homes and saps the manhood of the land. The Government flouted the law and it should have repealed the Act if lie bad no intention of giving effect to it. Mr Hammond predicts a motion of censure when Parliament meets. Ho ridicules the lack of money as an excuse and adds if soldiers who defended the country take deferred bonds the people/ who injured tb© country should take them.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 2677, 13 January 1921, Page 5
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145LIQUOR REFERENDUM. Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 2677, 13 January 1921, Page 5
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