STATE CONTROL ISSUE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17014, 12 April 1923, Page 6

STATE CONTROL ISSUE.

+ ATTACK BY ALLIANCE. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON. April 12. Al the annual meeting of the New Zealand Alliance. Mr John. J. Boyds, ol C hristchnreli, was elected president In the thirty-seventh annual report, reference was made to tlw stale of the rolls prior to the election. Many examples were cited of duplic&bion and j other mistakes. The Bay of Plenty rolls were particularly alluded to. The claim was made that the prohibition cause had net gone bask, buthad increased by 30,000 votes, and was actually the largest vote over cast on any subject in New enland. Prohibi- j lion was simply defeated and held in cheek by the undemocratic nature of flic ballot paper. * V. o infer.” states the report, that less than one-third .of the 35.727 of State Purchase and Con- | trol vote's, or. say. 12.000 out-and-out ; coTitirmnnee voters, vr<',-ented 325.060 1 voters from saving Now Zealand from , the liquor traffic-. The time has conn* when prohibition voters must exert s pressure to have removed from the ballot. paper an issue (State Control) which is not interesting f<> even six per cent of the voters, and yet which baffles and defeats noble aims.”