MORE PRESUMPTION.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVI, Issue 939, 5 March 1908, Page 20

MORE PRESUMPTION.

E’sewhere we publish a copy of a nohcense petition which is to be put before Parliament by the No-License League at Oroua. We will confess off-hand that we do not know much abou Oroua, but from wha; we can learn, Oroua is a county containing some six thousand odd people, and covering about 213 square miles. Presuming we are on the right place, we should judge from the usual limited views held by no-licensers that it is about the size place that should frame suggested laws for he whole of the Dominion. Briefly, Oroua did not carry prohibition at the local option poll, from the fact that the no-licensers did not poll strong enough. Therefore, they now decide that a bare majority is the correct hing and a petition to that effect is accordingly prepared. The arguments brought forth why this should be, are all too stale to be worth handling. Our legislators in the past decided that property and vested interests in ho el and kindred trades, were too valuable to be gambled away by the turn of a vote. The three fifths majority contains all the elements of fairness, when it is remembered that the gamble is all to nothing.