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APPRECIATION OF MR. COATES Press Association WELLINGTON, Wednesday. The Dominion executive of the New Zealand Licensing Reform Association to-day expressed disappointment at the manner in which licensing legislation had been approached by the Legislature, the failure, in the association’s opinion, being due to the prohibition party in extracting from candidates at the last general election hard and fast pledges, and so preventing a large number of members from exercising their judgment in the interests of the Dominion as a whole.
While unable to agree with the original provisions of the Bill the association placed on record its appreciation of the Prime Minister’s desire to affect measures of real reform, and expressed admiration of Mr. Coates’s strong stand to save the Dominion from prohibition on a bare majority on a “catch’’ vote. The association expressed the hope that the political parties would not permit official candidates to pledge themselves to outside organisations on matters not contained in their own party platforms. It was gratified at the retention of the third issue. .J. -I
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 222, 8 December 1927, Page 10
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175PLEDGED TO DRYS Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 222, 8 December 1927, Page 10
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