Maine and Prohibition.
—7 * DRY OR NOT DRY ?
WELLINGTON, Saturday
The private cablegrams received in Auckland to the effect that the Staee of Maine has gone back to prohibition have caused great interest in Wellington. The Rev. Dawson, secretary of the New Zealand Alliance, interviewed in sail that the issue- deckled was no- KohlUti.-m as against no-prohibition. It was a vote as to whether ti:_ -I actors should be allowed to express an opinion at the poll on the whole liquor question. What had happon ■ was to be regarded as a retrograde step, and regretted as such, but he was of the opinion that in any democratic country such questions would, from time to time, have to be ssttled by popular vote. The (interpretation of the trade, that the cable receive.l n:oant that Mains returned to no license was, in his opinion, incorrect, and he believed that when it came' to the people asserting themselves at the poll against no-lioense they would do so. »
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Waikato Times, Issue 12188, 25 September 1911, Page 4
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