OPINIONS OF MEMBERS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 902, 8 October 1910, Page 3

OPINIONS OF MEMBERS.

On the circulation of the Bill the Temperance Patty in the House arranged to have an informal gathering, if possible, before the House rose, to go through the Bill. Mr T. E. Taylor told a Times reporter that from a cursory reading it seemed to be the biggest measure of reform that had been offered to the temperance party by any Government in the country. He was particularly pleased that the national issue could now be placed before the country. “It the Bill goes through/’ Mr Taylor declared, “I believe next year will probably witness the final solution of the liquor problem as far as New Zealand is concerned.” Several members declined to express an opinion without fuller opportunity to study the Bill. Mr H. H. Ell said he could not comment at detail on the proposals but the Bill was the most advanced piece of licensing reform ever introduced into Parliament, and with the Gaming Bill would help to mark the session as one of the most memorable and important in the history of the country. He thought the new majority provided would meet with the approval of uo-license advocates as a step forward, Mr D. McLaren stated that the proposal went in the direction advocated by the Labour Party. Mr A. M. Myers expressed surprise that the Bill was not on the promised lines of what was known as the compact. The Bill appeared to offer many concessions to the prohibitionists.