LICENSING REFORM.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18416, 24 June 1925, Page 8

LICENSING REFORM.

$ VIGILANCE COMMITTEES TO BE SET UP. (PP.ESS ASSOCIATION TILKGKAM.) WELLINGTON, Juno IW. At a meeting of tho Dominion Executive of tho New Zealand Licensing Reform Association, tho following resolution was curried:— "That tho New Zealand Licensing Reform Association calls public attention to tho vicious political principle involved in the. action of tho Prohibition Party in attempting to secure control of Parliament by obtaining pledges from candidates to carry out their dictates and organising for the return, of such pledged candidates regaadless of tho real political issues of tho Dominion; that while regretting being forced into tho political held, tho Licensing Reform Association 1-ocog-liises its responsibility to tho moderate people of New Zealand, and announces its determination to resist tliia attempt to filch away their rights bv every moans in its power; that while'seeking no pledges itself, and asking only that tho people's representatives in Parliament shall have a free hand to deal with licensing legislation in the interests of tho people as a whole, the New Zealand Licensing Reform Association declares its determination to oppose the return of any candidate who pledges himself to tho Prolubition Party anil as a first step towards organisation for this purpose will proceed to set up vigilance committees in every electorate throughout the Dominion."