THE INTOLERANCE OF THE ENEMY.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XII, Issue 703, 27 August 1903, Page 22

THE INTOLERANCE OF THE ENEMY.

No better inducement could be given for a closer organisation of the Trade than is supplied by the report of a meeting held at the Garrison Hall, Dunedin, jgst week, under the auspices of the Council of the Churches and the Temperance Reform Council. At this meeting, over which the Mayor presided, the following resolutions were passed :—l. “ This meeting of electors of the City of Dunedin 'indignantly protests' against the scandAlBus inaction and obstruction of the Government in relation to the licensing polls and the enforcement of the law in Nevvtown, and declares that the Government is directly responsible for the present intolerable condition of affairs, and calls upon the representatives of the city to do their utmost, irrespective of party considerations, to secure such amendments of the law as shall prevent the repetition of such disgraceful occurrences.” 2. “This meeting calls upon Parliament to pass an Act making the provisions of sections 12 and 33 of the Alcoholic Liquors Sale Control Act, 1895, apply to the licensing districts of Newtown- and Bruce.” A resolution was also carried that it is imperative that legislation should be passed to provide for —(1) No poll being declared invalid unless it is shown the result does not express the will ot the electors ; (2) a new poll when a poll is voided ; (3) repeal of sub-section 3, of section 4, of the 1895 Act; (4) making any officer committing or permitting a breach of the law in the conduct of a poll, subject to a penalty/’