NEW ZEALAND ALLIANCE

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3082, 12 May 1917, Page 10

NEW ZEALAND ALLIANCE

, « LIQUOR IN AVAR TIME. Tho executive of this New Zealand Alliance met yesterday, and decided upon important measures affecting both the .war period and post-war conditions. It was arranged to hold the Dominion Convention during the month of "June, when a mass meeting is to bo held 'in tho Town Hall. A request is to bo mado to tho ministers of all churches to \iso Empiro Sunday, June 3, for a strong appeal to all people of the Dominion to follow, the King's oxamplo in personal abstinence from liquor, and prohibition of the traffic during tho war period and for at least six months afterwards. It was also resolved:—"That this meeting strongly protests against the recent action of tho Government in carrying beer, whisky, a.nd every other kind of alcoholic liquor on tho railways to the exclusion of seed .vheat, seed manure, agricultural hnplomouta (including ploughs), building materials, and urgent merchandise, as a travesty of sound policy and an outrage on tho moral sonso and economic interests of tho country, and £ es Pectf l ffly urges that at this time of crisis, when tho economic resources of tho Empire aro being strained to tho pat> Tiotism and common sense combine to demand that the fullest oossiblo encouragement of necessary, wholesome, and productive industries, and tho j discouragement to the point of prohibition of those, which minister to luxury, Tvaste, destruction, and degradation."