WELLINGTON PROHIBITION CONVENTION.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume VI, Issue 310, 2 July 1896, Page 10

WELLINGTON PROHIBITION CONVENTION.

At the Prohibition Convention, held at Wellington on Thursday last, it was resolved that unless the provision requiring half the electors to vote at a licensing poll in districts where there is no Parliamentary contest be repealed, the Council recommends that no seat be uncontested; that, independent of party politics, no candidate for the forthcoming Parliamentary elections can be satisfactory to the Prohibition party who is not a sincere supporter of the platform ; thattlie Government be urged to appoint a Royal Commission of enquiry into police administration and of inspection of breweries ; they also urge the substitution of an elective for a party Executive. The convention also carried a large number of amendments which it considered necessary to the licensing laws. At a prohibition meeting, held the same evening, on Mr Isitt’s motion, it was agreed that there can be no finality to our demands upon Parliament until the people have conferred upon them the power to completely suppress the liquor traffic locally and eolonially by a majority vote.