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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11752, 2 August 1916, Page 5

j Mr K. A. Wright denied that th© j prohibition party was responsible for I the early closing movement. It was ]' widespread throughout the Dominion, backed up by the press, which was previously strongly opposed to prohibition. The defeat 01 the proposal in tlie House would only result in a reaction in the count ry. Mr W. T. Jennings advocated a system of State Control i'or liquor in the King Country, where there was no control, resulting in a most unsatisfactory state of affairs. Mr Wilkinson believed that as a question of national efficiency it would have been wiser to have curtailed the sale of liquor. The Hon. A. T. .Herdman asked why they should single out one particular business for economy. The demand for the closing of hotels was not fair play 1 . At the last polls the people had not oxpressed any demand for the limitation of the hours of licensed houses. It was totally unfair to limit the hours without granting compensation. He had been charged with bias, but did the member for Christchureli, he asked, approach this subject without prejuI dice? People were saving now to a certain ©stent. He believed the war ( ' regulations would induce further I economy. t | The Bill was read ; a third time and ; passed. ( Mr Isitt, by leave of the House, made a brief statement, in which he eulogised the Prime Minister for the absolute fairness and strict impartiality b.ti had shown in conducting the several conferences on the liquor question.