NEWS AND VIEWS.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXI, 21 December 1921, Page 4

NEWS AND VIEWS.

4 — FROM THE CAPITAL CITY. PREPARING FOR LICENSING I>GR [To the Adveriiser-By Arrangement' Wellington, December 1| It was at one time re ported that the Trade was not mak Ing such elaborate arrangement.: f« contesting the forthcoming poll as j made two years ago and at the sp-ecia war referendum. It was underetoa the people interested in the liquor bu s j nesK, thinking their position eecun would not spend the vast amount u money and energy they had don-i « former occasions in defending it againu the assaults of the prohibitionists. Bm from what has since transpired it se® they are very far from being in tl» confident frame of mind and in n<. w disposed to leave anything in tin test to chance. They are taxing tlnm selves on a scale that will prodine ; bigger fighting fund than they eve have bad before, and are putting tb finishing touches on a plan of camp™ which will be far more complete thai anything they have attempted in th past, This, at any rate, is the state ment of a representative of the Trad who was present at the conference THE OTHER SIDE. The prohibitionists, on their |, ari ere reticent, both as to their plans am as to their prospects. Their fear i that tile Government, in its lacd e money, will be less indifferent, abon the fate of the Trade than it :ipp.a ra to be two years ago. With ilowim prosperity in 1919 Mr Massey afford to regard with some mcasiin n equanimity the possibility of liav.ng i million or so cut off his revenue n t en, fell swoop. But the position is mncl more difficulty now than it appeared i be then, and though it is not suggests the Prime. Minister would do anythin <x> prejudice the chance oi pro6ifi lt i« being carried, it would be only natun tor him to regard the financial remit ot such an eventuality with some eon •era. The prohibitionists are eontinu "'K'heir protests against th.- retentim Cl the State Control issue rt n tin- l«l i ci paper and in this matter haw i goiKl deal of sympathy from the g.u.ra i ' >ub "? b '! t Trade is not .nekre to let this votcsplitting device . without a fight. THE DOMINION’S OUTLOOK. I Sir Joseph Ward, »J„ fi as I Hpe " <hn n: « few days in Wellingt.u, at mg to a number of business ! 'holly unconnected with poli tll , f«l very interestingly this morn,,, ■ i nX'V ° f P “ b,ic » 'nX sh U ? t<XX * that ** <*« now it tO P art -v poHties now. It m lgh t be gathered from . [ a peacemaker. ' New r 7° S r Ph ? POhte refusal I and thZ "“ s quit.- final could I t7 S n ° by - path '’.V h ould be led up to the sub -pressed himself as much grant,..i I the appearance of suefi parU <l( I rauntry as he had .seen X h,s retan .t« the Dommion. n H . ilarv , >r t| , South promised to lie an abundant and the reports he had reee.v.,l Ho. h sown district suggested n ....... cularly ravored m this respect. Ha. the good prices of two years a a, '«« imuntamed New 7„„i.,„e ~ . Zealand might liar, aced its fniaiu-iui ditfi.-ultx-. .. th hght heart. As it was |t , a good deal of comfort from th. aJe evidence of the prodiietirHa of ,'t. soil and the magnificence of iu . ieinntr rices, he was afraid, were not gain, to return to their former level for i year or two. The wool market : ail unproved to some extent, and th,- «amatter for congratulation, but nil th. purchasing jiowcr of Britain . el £» rojte were restored tho recovery neo» sanly would bo slow. Meat might g-' hack to the old conditions earlier, l.th the questions of freight anet marhetini would require attention and quality would have to be jealously maintain'd Ho honed Canterbury and Otago, pf haps with additional assistance frow parts of the North Island, wotilel ag-nn make the Dominion independent "f ‘'"t" side wheat supplies, and that clo.-e settlement and inte-nsivc cultivation aoiiM win for it a still higher place the dairying and fruit-growiei; ‘ Hin ' tries

PERSONAL. fehtcr vein to personal Joseph said tllilt h,s loss flnoWi flesh had led many assume he was in 111any rate, had passed illness. But, as a matic never in his life had ' | je did at the present " tft before he left LonH 1 a specialist in regard ' \rouhle from which he ",.j nI r for son," years. He ',i’then dieted.and tinalof health in every “e kno'vh’dP’ of how to , s ,| t - It was simple, it ' treatment, but the Zdrd his most sanguine Sir Joseph's overflowing ca l and mental, bear un(idenee to his improved b<ra »h his present aspiraappear to he in that di|l be strange sooner or o t drawn back into the the Dominion. ,n B DEPARTMENT, [jse yesterday Mr C. E. leader of the Progressive Moderate Labor Party- „ the present Parliament y[r Kellett and hoping accession to its strength al election —moved to reror given to the Minister Customs Bill to prohibit ion of goods “at his own lassey"pointed out that was responsible to Parthis did not satisfy Mr , protested it was a case t delegating all its powers unent. Mr Massey retortders were not asking for king because they liked it, it was necessary in the the public. During the remment had prohibited jam. “Yes,’’ interjected “but that was an export, t ." And then the MinisHouse into his confidence, head of the department fd to have the clause ine would not have done so d reason. ■■Government ■c'ltrtmenis'’ was the flipt with which the incident