SENT TO PARLIAMENT
WITH HANDS TIED! The tactics of the New Zealand Alliance in suborning the people s representative will meet with the scorn and indignation of all fair-minded electors. Pledged to vote on licensing matters as the Alliance dictates, many of these “tied” politicians will vote regardless of the wishes of the great majority of their constituents. The voting in the House on this year's Licensing Reform Bill plainly proved that the New Zealand Alliance had a strangle-hold on Parliament. And what is more significant, it showed that the New Zealand Alliance is out to prevent reform (i.e., true temperance legislation) at all costs. The best answer to the obstructive tactics of the New Zealand Alliance is to rsturn a verdict so overwhelmingly against Prohibition that the pledge givers will realise that they must put the interests of New Zealand before the interests of the New Zealand Alliance. Vet* Continuance,—Advt.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 510, 13 November 1928, Page 16
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151SENT TO PARLIAMENT Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 510, 13 November 1928, Page 16
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