PROHIBITION

Hokitika Guardian, 6 September 1928, Page 1

PROHIBITION

N.S.W. REFERENDUM. .MODERATE LEAGUE COMMMENT. WELLINGTON, September 4. Referring to the result ol the New South Wales liquor referendum and to the statement of the President ol the New Zealand Alliance that the result had been expected. Mr R. M. l'indlay. president of the New Zealand Moderate league and vice-president of the New Zealand Licensing Reform Association, said that .Mr 'Todd’s statement was an admission of the obvious futility ol the prohibition movement in British communities. His attribution of the overwhelming defeat of prohibition in Net; South Wales to the condition of compensation did not square with the confidence expressed by the New Zealand Alliance ill 1911), when, as a result ol the wartime prohibition agitation, a special pull was granted to the Alliance on the issue of prohibition with compensation. It was deplorable ft) find that section of tho community which, by its neverending agitation and political activity, was responsible for the tremendous expense and social disturbance of the prohibition referenda, calmly admitting that it expected defeat. This constituted a strong argument for calling a halt in the constant recurrence of referenda on prohibition in New Zealand. Poll after poll had repeatedly disclosed the determination of the people of this

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