PROHIBITION.

Otaki Mail, 15 December 1922, Page 4

PROHIBITION.

REV. FEILDEN TAYLOR SUGGESTS REFORM. Referring to the licensing poll of last week at a service in Wellington, the Rev. T. Feildcn Taylor said that it was quite evident, after twelve years' voting, that the majority of people in Xew Zealand did not want Prohibition, but it was also evident that a majority wanted reform of some kind, it would be, the speaker said, a waste of time aad money to continue to urge such a thing as Prohibition, and he for one felt he could not go on doing so. tile felt that the majority who wanted ! sonic kind of reform must think out a reform in which both Prohibitionists mid StotO-ConfcrqUcrs would agree, and which the pnblie would bo most likely ItO accept. The true reformer dues not recognise that he is defeated, and if one method of reform is unacceptable he must try another. The speaker felt that the liquor referendum should be given a rest for ten years, and, for his part, he felt he must give it that rest, For the future, ho would work along the lino of reform, and would, do ail he could to suggest a process of reform which would be a reform indeed. The referendum is a dej mocratic way of settling public probI lems, and a referendum which has for I twelve years furnished the same answer should surely be considered as settled.