LOCAL OPTION.
Auckland, November 14
Mr Ganson, secretary of the band of business men who figured prominently in the last licensing election, says that the Trade has got to windward of the No-License party and badly beaten them. “Fancy people having declared that they don’t want certain goods being compelled to put up with them for five years. The same objection held against the two years’ continuance after no-license was carried.” He agreed with the deletion of the reduction issue.
Mr Spragg, President of the New Zealand Alliance, said some of the Temperance party would be dissatisfied by not securing the bare majority vote, but the Dominion vote, though the effect was deferred for five years, was a distinct gain. What was decided was practically what would probably be decided upon by Parliament if it spent a month in debating the question. Mr Leo Myers, representing the brewers, said* it was now a clearcut issue. The Trade had always felt that if licensed houses were closed in an electorate it should be locally followed by no-license-no-liquor. The Trade was unable to obtain all it desired and agreed to a compromise.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MH19091116.2.15
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 507, 16 November 1909, Page 3
Word count
Tapeke kupu
190LOCAL OPTION. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 507, 16 November 1909, Page 3
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Manawatu Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in