THE LIQUOR QUESTION.
SIR JOSEPH WARD’S VIEWS
ON EFFICIENCY BOARD’S PLAN. In reply to a deputation of businessmen yesterday (states the “Auckland Star” of Friday last), Sir Joseph Ward stated that he was favourable to a vote of the people by referendum in accordance with the recommendation of the Efficiency Board, which provided tor compensation to the Trade, and that, should the decision of the electors not he favourable to the Efficiency Board's recommendation, then separate issues 1 should be provided for by Parliament ! this session and submitted to the people at the general election. Also, that the soldiers away from the Dominion in both cases shoidd be given the right and opportunity to vote. “T expressed th o above as my opinion, and that Cabinet would, of course, have to consider and decide the matter m due course.”
The Anglican Synod, sitting at Auckland, carried a resolution expressing the opinion that the Gouin ment should give the people an early opportunity of deciding by referendum the question of national prohibition or continuance., —Press Association.
NO REFERENDUM TUTS YEAR WELLINGTON, Oct. 22 Enquiries made in Government circles show that there is unlikely to. be a referendum on the liquor question this V4?ar»
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19181023.2.9
Bibliographic details
Hokitika Guardian, 23 October 1918, Page 1
Word Count
202THE LIQUOR QUESTION. Hokitika Guardian, 23 October 1918, Page 1
Using This Item
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in