CORRESPONDENCE.
MR. HAWKEN AND NO-LTCENSE LEAGUE. (To the Editor.) Sir, —In your local and general OBhima in Tuesday’s Daily News, Mr. O. J. Hawken, M.P., is reported to have told a deputation from the Egmont No-Lic-ense League that they were doing wrong in asking sitting Parliamentarians how they would vote, and. he declined tn give his opinions on certain questions, preferring that the people should judge him after he had voted. Are we to take from thia attitude that Mr. Hawken has renounced the opinions he held and so strongly advocated from the platform ia 1919, when, as a prominent member of the Efficiency League, he recommended “sudden death at any price” for the liquor traffic ? Surely any organisation of electors has a perfect right to know the opinions of its Parliamentary representative on political questions that are of vital interest to its members, and. electors generally in casting their votes, and I feel sure that Mr. Hawken’s opinions on the above would have been much more appreciated than his advice. With all due respect to Mr. Hawken, and thanking you in anticipation,— l am, etc., OUTSIDER.
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 June 1925, Page 8
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187CORRESPONDENCE. Taranaki Daily News, 18 June 1925, Page 8
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