NO-LICENSE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 621, 25 September 1909, Page 6

NO-LICENSE.

CONVENTION AT FOXTON. The second annual convention: of No-License' workers of tho Mannwatu electorate was held at Foxton ou Thursday. •". ■ Tho following resolutions were carried-.—(1) That hygienic and scientific temperance instruction be niado a compulsory class subject in primary schools from Standard 111 upwards, and that, tho Alliance Executive be'-, urged to give early consideration to the best methods of securing temperance teaching' hi day schools until it.becomes an accepted subject' to the ordinary curriculum. (2) That this convention strongly affirms the right, of tho majority to rule tho-licensing, polls, and. tho right of Dominion. option, and pledges to do its utmost to secure the embodiment of these rights by legislation, ;and appeals to the member for the district, to use his best endeavour in Parliament for tho samo purpose, and request's' the council to forward a copy' of tho resolution: to Mr. Vvman, M.P., with the signatures of elec-tors-in support of it; also to send-a cony to tho Premier. (3) This ; convention strongly condemns,the action of tho' chairman of the raumarunm Licensing .Committee in giving his I deliberative and casting, vote in : favour of wholesale licenses in the King Country, thus violating a so.emn compact long .existing between the Government and the Maori people, cwT 15 ? - ho ,1 OTer ™»nt 'o fako immediate &V t;£ ng "- 6 the Supreme Court with a view, to quashing tho said 'fWrV ft '- 0 i?'? Maoris out;s ' ido th » King .Country, tho ,-risht. to. vote on the question of