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Hokitika Guardian, 30 May 1923, Page 3

PROHIBITION QUESTION. CORPORATE CONTROL. WELLINGTON, May 30. Challenged to produce an acceptable scheme for the reform of the liquor traffic, four members of the Anglican ■Synod at Auckland same time ago produced proposals. which were recently opened, considered, and amended by a Conference of various branches of the Trade. The amended proposal*, which the Conference desires to see made an issue in the licensing ballot paper in place of the present issue of State Control, provide for the vesting of the liquor trade in a corporation, on the directorate of which the State will be represented by a majority of members. and which will be required to limit its dividends to ten per cent, tievoting the excess to national put-

pO>OS. , Under the scheme suggested, the ownership of licensed premises tlie manufacture, importation, and wholesale distribution of alcoholic liquois in the Dominion, will be exclusively vested bv Act of Pari ame nt in the Corporation.' All-owners of hotel premises, or lessees from local bodies of hotel p.e mises all holders of brewers’ licenses and wholesale licenses, will be required to sell to the Corporation their properties, , m d in case of the brewers ami wholesale licensees, their business as manufacturers and wholesale vendors. The scheme involves the removal from the ballot paper of the State Control issue and the substitution ot a tluri issue called Corporate Control, providing for the carrying into effect of the system above described. It is understood that those comprisintr the Conference favoured the ulea of Corporate Control, and if the issue is* carried there would be no furtbei poll oil the licensing L’.sue for. nme or ten years,