NO-LICENSE CONVENTION.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1499, 6 July 1905, Page 2

NO-LICENSE CONVENTION.

DEFICIENCY OF NEARLY £SOO,

(Fes Press Association.) Wellington, yesterday. At the Alliance Convention Mr A. S. Adame was re eleoted president. Eulogistic references were made to the work ef the late Mesdames Sievwright Schnackenberg (Auckland), Mr Jago (Dunedin), and the„Rev. Miller (Napier). The balance sheet showed a deficiency of £491.

Wellington, last night. The annual report laments that the price paid for the good features of last year’s Licensing Act had to bo a number of concessions to the enemy. Apropos of Cook Islands, the report sayß: “ Unfortunately the complete prohibition of the traffic in the Cook Islands, for which the Alliance has long been agitating, has not been obtained, and the entrusting of the bueiness to the Customs authorities establishes an evil precedent, for which stringent restrietions placed on sales to natives offer very inadequate compensation. The party must fight to the death any attempt to, extend the scope of this vioious principle by a siDgle inch.” In the concluding sections of the report it is remarked that the Alliance's chief difficulty and deepest source of regret lies in the fact that while a great number of the churches of the colony stand sido by side with it in this great conflict, so many ministers of religion (some of them holding positions of groat influence) hold aloof from if they do not actively oppose the no-lieense movement. To those and to laymen who take an active interest in the church work, yet will not oppose tho liquor traffic, the Allianeo submits a number of fasts, aud concludes by declaring that on the liquor question public opinion outside the House had been stronger than public opinion inside the House.