LIQUOR. TRADE
THE SUGGESTED POW (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELTIGUAH.) AUCKLAND, July 8. Tho Hon. G. W. Russell, in an interview, said:—"Tho leaders of tho liquor trade and the executive of the New Zealand Alliance appear to have come to an agreemont on tho proposal to take a poll on the subject of national prohibition, and apparently they will agree, if they have not already agreed, to Parliament being asked during tho coming session to legislate on tho lines of tho Efiicicncy Board's recommendation, which nrovides compensation estimated at £4,500,000. Possibly the amount would ro.-juire to be taken out of the Consolidated Revenue, without any spr-cial fund being provided for interest and sinking fund. Whether those who contributed to direct taxation in land and inoomo tax will accept the proposal remains to be seon." Under national prohibition, Mr Russell added, the manufacture and sale of nkr»!iolic liquors would cease. H* opinion was that proposals should be discussed by Parliament, and a referendum taken to finally decide whether tho Bill should become law.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19180709.2.43
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16259, 9 July 1918, Page 7
Word count
Tapeke kupu
170LIQUOR. TRADE Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16259, 9 July 1918, Page 7
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
Ngā mihi
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.
Log in