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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4471, 25 September 1922, Page 2

BOAD OF ALDERMEN CONDEMN PROHIBITION. The Board of Aldermen of the City of New York passed the . following resolution on February 7th lasti Whereas public opinion, as evidenced in newspaper reports anu expressions of the peop e in general, tends strongly to a desire for an amendment of the Volstead Law so that there may be restored to the people the right to the use of the nourishing light wines and beers to which they were for years accustomed and which they believe hy right they should be permitted ; therefore resolved— That the Congress of the United States be and hereby is petitioned, in the name of the Board of Ajldermen of the City of New York, to so amend the all too-prohibitive Volstead Law to the end that the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages may be permitted so that the many who for years found sustenance in light wines and beers may again e'njpy that right and privilege. Resolutions of similar import have recently been adopted by the Common Councils or other, municipal boards of Chicago, St. Louis,; Baltimore, Bpston, and several other cities. The Legislature of Louisiana has also adopted such a resolution. The Chamber of Commerce of Milwaukee and the Grain Trade Association of the San Francisco Chamber pf Commerce and other. commerical bodies have placed themselves on record in like terms. Such' verdicts on Prohibition from responsible' bodies need no. commentVote L

Tn our issue of Friday last in the report of the Church of England social the name pf Miss E. Houlihan, who played an extra’, was inadvertently omitted. For Influenza, ta&e Woods’ Grp&t Peppermint Cure.