BARE MAJORITY.
PLEDGES FROM CANDIDATES
[IIV TKLF.<;HATTr. —TRT.SS ASSOCIATION.] Invercargill. Thursday.
The United Temperance Reform Council, together with delegates from the Awarua and Wallace electorates, met in conference to-day with Mr Wesley Spragg and the Rev. J. Dawson, president and secretary respectively of the New Zealand Alliance. Messrs Spragg and Dawson explained that the alliance was seeking through various temperance organisations to secure pledges from 1500 to 3000 electors in each constituency not to vote for any candidate for Parliamentary honours who would not promise to support the simple majority for the licensing question, or at least a material reduction of the present handicap. It was stated that the alliance could get nothing furtner from the past or present Parliaments, and that decisive steps would have to be taken if its object was to be achieved. The conference unanimously agreed
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 500, 14 September 1912, Page 5
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140BARE MAJORITY. King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 500, 14 September 1912, Page 5
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