NEW ZEALAND ALLIANCE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVIII, Issue 147, 25 June 1914, Page 7

NEW ZEALAND ALLIANCE.

ANNUAL MEETING IN WELLINGTON.

PBOSPECTS OF SUCCESv^.

[Press Association.]

WELLINGTON, June 24. The twenty-eighth annual meeting -of the New Zealand Alliance and Dominion Congress was begun in Wet Tington to-day. The Mayor welcomed ihe delegates, who number 180, and who came from all parts of tihe Dominion.

At the Congress breakfast'the Rev. SV. <J. Comrie, chairman of the exereutive, said that . the Alliance embraced all parties so far as politics was concerned. It embraced all creeds so far as religion was conoern--ed It embraced all colors and! nationalities. Its goal was the abolition of the liquor traffic in New Zealand. He hoped their goal was not far distant. They had the majority of the people bohind them: The president (Mr Wesley Spragg) said that there was no time in the history of their movement when they liad more hope of seeing an early isuc--tieps of their efforts. They had never tefore found their opponents so anxious, so determined, so compactly organised, so lavish with their money, or so intent on trying to defeat the Alliance. The Liquor party realised iihat they Were approaching tdieir TWatorloo. They realised the nearness <©f the cKflsolntion of th^ir awful buaiWM, He was inclined to tMai tfcflj

would see Federal prohibition earned i in the United States, even before it ] was carried in New Zealand. He re- 1 joiced at their prospects of success. • Addresses were also deliv«.red_ by ] Mrs A. R. Atkinson, Mrs H. LeeCowie, the Rev. P. S. Smallfield, and Messrs A. Toombs, and C. H. Poole.