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Hokitika Guardian, 25 May 1928, Page 2

N.Z.- ALLIANCE. WELLINGTON, May 25. At the annual meeting of the New Zealand Alliance, if was decided: “That the Alliance renew its demand for removal from the ballot paper of the discredit issue of State Purchase and Control, and that it use every endeavour to secure facilities for tlie passage into law this session of a bill providing for the adoption of a two-issue ballot paper.”

It was also decided to oppose strenuously any proposal to make retrospective the provision for the grant of licenses in respect to premises that, owing to changes in electoral boundaries, have been included in a nolicense district and in consequence of such inclusion have lost their licenses and subsequently have been included in a license district. It was further decided to demand that it he made an offence either to drink any intoxicating liquor or to allow any intoxicating liquor to lie consumed, upon any premises licensed to he used as a hall or cabaret for dancing, and to oppose the proposal to enable Licensing Committee to authorise the use of one or more private bars in addition to one public bar, and demand that no part of any licensed premises be permitted to he used for the sale or supply of intoxicating liquor other than one authorised bar. The annual report directs attention to the frequency of motor accidents in which alcohol is a factor, and states the responsibiltv of sanctioning a traffic which is responsible for this, rests upon society as a whole. INTOXICATED DRIVER. T 1 MARI'. May 25. At tlie Magistrate’s Court before Justices, Maurice John Hartnett, of Seadown, qn n charge of being intoxicated whilst in charge of a car, was fined £lO and bis license endorsed,