THE LIQUOR BATTLE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1114, 29 April 1911, Page 5

THE LIQUOR BATTLE.

THE REV. T. FEE'S VIEWS. THE TRADE DOOMED. By Telceraph—Press Association-Copyrteht Sydnay, April 28. The Rev. Thomas Fee, of Wellington, who is on a holiday visit, has_ been interviewed ■ regarding the No-License movement. Ho said tho statement that home-drinking had increased in "dry" districts in Nov/ Zealand was a gratuitous lie. "Sly grog-selling," he said, "seems' to be encouraged by brewers and liquor merchants', who supply the sly grog-seliers, and then point to the conditions they themselves set up. If it is desired the trade could stop sly grog-selling by refusing supplies. If tho No-License Party has not yet killed the trade it is only a matter of ~a little time until it meets its doom." FREAK LEGISLATION. NEW ZEALAND A LAUGHINGSTOCK. Sydnay, April 28. Mr. A. Farthing, a Victorian delegate to the Inter-State Licensed Victuallers' Conference, declared that tho "unenlightened" countries were France, Switzerland, and Germany, where licensing legislation had been settled for hundreds of years. The United States had dabbled in No-License for sixty years, and did not now know where it stood, whilo New Zealand was tho laugh-ing-stock of the world, and the home of freak licensing legislation. Mr. Nixon (a New Zealand delegate) supported Mr. Farthing's view regarding New Zealand's legislation. He did not think any town had benefited by No-License. .