“TRADE” RESOLUTIONS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 58, 30 June 1914, Page 5

“TRADE” RESOLUTIONS.

THE LICENSING BILL. v ' —— [P*B Fb£B> Association.] Dunedin, June 29. At a meeting of the members of the Licensed Victuallers’ Association of Otago and Southland to-day, th© provisions ' of the Licensing L-mend-ment Bill were discussed, and reference ipade to the attitude of other associations throughout the country against the reduction of the threefifths majority necessary to carry national prohibition. The following motions were carried : That no deduction from the 60 per cent, for local or national prohibit-, tion should be entertained by Parliament,''without first showing what new form of taxation shall . Ha imnosed on the people to make up the loss of £900,000 of Government revenue. That the Prohibition party is not justified in asking for a bare majority, as the votes of those for national prohibition at last election only totalled 44 per cent, of the electors on the roll, and that this minority should; not be able to control 56 per cent, of th© electors as well as many thousands who are not on the roll.