PROHIBITION QUESTION.
ALLIANCE AND PREMIER. BILL TO BE INTRODUCED. MR. COATES’ ANXIETY. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Thursday. Resolutions of the annual conference of the New' Zealand Alliance were placed before the Premier, Mr. Coates, and the Minister of Health, Mr. Young, to-day, by a deputation some hundreds strong. Speakers asked for decision by a bare majority and a twoi6sue ballot paper to be provided for by the introduction of a Licensing Bill early in the coming session, and that the Bill should be given free passage. Replying, Mr Coates said he considered it his duty to enable Parliament again to consider the question. He confessed a nervousness lesl prohibition, if passed, should not be fully complied with.
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Waikato Times, Volume 103, Issue 17410, 24 May 1928, Page 5
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117PROHIBITION QUESTION. Waikato Times, Volume 103, Issue 17410, 24 May 1928, Page 5
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