LIQUOR BILL DEBATE.
REFERENDUM IN 1928. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received October 12, 11.35 a.m.) SYDNEY. October 12. The State Assembly had an all-night debate on the Liquor Bill, which provides for a five-yearly referendum on prohibition, with compensation, and the transference of the powers of the licensing boards to district licensing courts. Nothwith standing the resolution the the Nationalist Conference objectjin tr to the provision for a prohibition referendum in 1928, and urging that it be taken in 1924. Mr Ley declined to make the alteration. He was subjected to trenchant criticism by the Probibitionists in the Nationalist Party. The measure will he a. non-party one.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17169, 12 October 1923, Page 8
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