LICENSING COMPROMISE.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 12945, 9 December 1909, Page 5

LICENSING COMPROMISE.

THE "TRADE'S" RESOLUTIONS.

(Per rTtiited Press Association. 1 )

WELLINGTON, December 8

The following resolutions were adopted at the conference of the licenced liquor trade of New Zealand.

On the motion of the Hon. Louisson, M.L.C., seconded by Mr Walter Johnston: (1) 'That this meeting of delegates from brewers, wine and spirit merchants, and licensed victuallers of New Zealand views with surprise and indignation the action of the No-Licen«e Party in deliberately repudiating an agreement entered into between their official representatives and representatives of the trade for the amend, ment of the licensing laws, and emphasises the fact that at the date of the meeting of the conference of the No-License delegates at Wellington, at which such repudiation was decided on, the above-nam-ed agreement had already been signed by official representatives of both parties and a draft of the jiroposed Bill, embodying th«* agreement had been agreed to by the solicitors of both parties through the final arbitrament of the Hon. Dr. Findlay, and the suggestion coming from the No-License Conference that an alteration should be made in terms of the agreement came too late and was simply a weak attempt to justify a most ignominous repudiation of a written agreement." (2) "That this meeting and trade of the Dominion will opi:o>e by every proper and legitimate moans in their power any attempt to de. pa it from the three-fifths majority for either 'local no-license' or 'Dominion prohibition,' except on the express condition that the principle of 'one elector one vote' shall be introduced, two issues only to be on the voting paper, viz. local continuance; (2) local no-license and Dominion prohibition, and that the time limit in the ca,se of local no-license being carried be not less than two years from the date of the poll, and, in the case of Dominion prohibition being carried, be not less thai five years from the date of the poll. (3) "That this meeting is of opinion that the -Right Hon. the Prime Minister should, in the interests and welfare of the public and the Dominion, introduce and pass into law, as outlined in his Financial Statement, such legislation as will carry out the agreement entered into on the 6th of No. vember last between the representatives of the New Zealand Alliance and the Trade, and that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to him with a respectful request to give the same effect.

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