STATE CONTROL ISSUE.
AN ALLIANCE DEPUTATION. (Special to the “ Star.”) WELLINGTON, April .12. The Prime Minister was interviewed by the New Zealand alliance to-day regarding the licensing law. suggestions being made for an amendment. The deputation was private, but the character of the requests may be gauged from the references in the Alliance’s annual report. “ The time has come.” it was stated, “ When 300,000 prohibition voters must exert pressure to have removed from the ballot paper an issue. (State Control) which is not interesting to even 6 per cent of the voters, yet which baffles and defeats noble aims. The statement has been repeatedly made that the 1918 Licensing Amendment Act is the result of a. compromise between the New Zealand Alliance and the Trade. The statement is emphatically untrue, and has been denied repeatedly. Sir Francis Bell, who prepared the Bill, made this perfectly clear in his statement when the Bill was under discussion in the Legislative
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17015, 13 April 1923, Page 5
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