CORRESPONDENCE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14711, 17 September 1918, Page 5

CORRESPONDENCE.

LICENSING 'PETITIONS.

(To the Editor of the Herald.)

; Sir,— ln regly to: Mr. Chatterton's assertion ;a cattvasser' for the 'petition for a referendum on the three issuesnational 6^wner__ip, ; -riati6A'ar continuance, aiid national vpTOWKtiori, has been telling people r -ihat 'l&T'-Chattertorr and a number -of- othrtr v i'^j,rohihitiolnists have signed, I would sfcaw'tH&t if such be the case it is being dohd without the sanction of myself: or. ranf'c'ertain; Of any member of^the ibrarie. 1 '! shall bd only too pleased if {Mr. Chntterfon will giiie me 'the x name of any; person presumably using nnf air . taotics^ . as. all members of the trade are just as anxiony& ' as the prohibition party, that true expression of the" will of the.; people .should be; obtained.^ Mr. ' Ohatterton' >*and Mr 7 . Bayle-y,, tn decrying the. three- issue petition, entirely overlook the 'fact tthat.if ,a majority of the, electors., of the Dominion is m favor of prohibition, that issue will he carried.- There cannot be any doTibt that those., who vote. either for national continuance """OT national ownership are; m favor of the retention rofliquoi', and it is perfectly apparent that /the' prohibition party is afraid tfchait the will of the people. will prove to bo m favor, not of orahibitibn, but of one of the' two forms of , coPtir.-^-I am, etc.. •'.,.'■■ . ' D. J. BARRY.