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NO-LICENSE LEAGUE.

A well attended meeting of no-license workers, soma fifty being present, was held on Thursday evening in the Congregational Church, when the Rev. J. Dawson, secretary o£ the New Zealand Alliance, delivered an address dealing with the democratic vote campaign at present being undertaken by the Alliance. The Rev. A. Armstrong occupied the chair. The speaker dealt exhaustively with the subject, pointing out the suriou3 handicap to the prohibition movement by reason of the threefifths majority vote, and illustrating his point by taking his hearers into the world of sport, in which with the same principle,applied a cricket club scoring 150 would lose to their opponents scoring 101, only though they would gain a "splendid moral victory." The 1 campaign to do away with this handicap, or at least to reduce the maority required is being entered into heartily by the sixtyelectorates visited thus far. The object is to hava Vie handicap placed upon the tr-ade, but to have it removed from the present party which has carried it for nineteen years. After many questions had been asked and answered, the following resolutions were carried unanimously : "That believing in the democratic principle of majority rule in public matters, this meeting deems that the settlement of the local and national prohibition questions at the poll should at once come under this rule; and as a step towards securing this position, this meeting expresses its approval of the action of the New Zealand Alliance in seeking to obtain in all electorates the signatures of voters to the following pledge: '1 hereby give my pledge that, regardless of party, I will not, at the next election vote fur any candidate lor Parliament who will not undertake, if elected, to do his utmost to remove, or, at least, very substantially reduce, the present unfair handicap on both the issues of no-license and national prohibition.' "' Regarding local matters it was thought that the following resolution woulJ meet the position:— "That this meeting, representing the large majority of voters in this district requests the New Zealand Alliance, as the highest authority in the Dominion on licensing laws, to inquire into tho present evils in the King Country, arising from the unrestricted importation of liquor by a certain section of the community, and to make en our behalf such representations to the Government a3 will affect very desirable reforms in this proclaimed area." After several other matters were dealt with, notably the increasing consumption of methylated spirits in the district, the meeting concluded with votes of thanks to the speaker foe his splendid address, and to the chairman, and the signing of the democratic voters pledge by all present.

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King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 524, 7 December 1912, Page 5

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NO-LICENSE LEAGUE. King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 524, 7 December 1912, Page 5

NO-LICENSE LEAGUE. King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 524, 7 December 1912, Page 5

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