STATE LIQUOR POLL
PROHIBITION LEADER’S CRITICISM. By Telegraph—Pres* Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received Deoember 14, 11.6 a.m.) SYDNEY, December 14. The Assembly sat all night on the committee stages of the Liquor Bill. The committee rejected the clause requiring the registration of barmaids. It agreed to the compensation of employees with eighteen months’ service or over. The Rev R. B. S. Hammond indignantly criticised the members who pledged themselves to an immediate referendum and voted for 1928. The Bill, he says, is the most astounding Christmas present ever given to the people. The defeat of prohibition ia not so much a set hack .to the issue as a blow to the honour of the public men who broke their pledges. Only thirtyone fifty five who gave their pledge honoured it. They gave many and varied excuses, but these sounded like those given by Germany when the scrap of paper was torn up.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17223, 14 December 1923, Page 9
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154STATE LIQUOR POLL Star (Christchurch), Issue 17223, 14 December 1923, Page 9
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