LIQUOR AND POLITICS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 706, 4 July 1929, Page 1

LIQUOR AND POLITICS

blame for prohibition PARTY “SHEET ANCHOR OF SHUFFLER” S UN’B Parliamentary Reporter) BLDGS, Wednesday. &DD-a».* icens * ng: Question made its first whenA nce in Parliament this session a on - Hon. W. H. Mclntpre (Nelof hu a<le refere nce to it in the course debate s , peech the Address-in-Reply Reoi i the Le £islative Council. Hon t to an interjection by the , Isitt (Canterbury), Mr. Mchon it had not been for the the misguided enthusiasm A ou i d ® n »ingr question in New Zealand ave i* een settled years ago. The the unuV 1 1 should take into account of toe people. The Prohibition fallen hop^ SGS that Prohibition is a *!’ Not a bit of it. c ount*J* lc i ntyre said it had cost the iteewlV. about £30.000 to hold the last I ,j 0 ” on the licensing question, any aot agree with a referendum on *otJr? Sion ’” he said. “I think it is witjj & nd Parliament should deal is an ~/*°hibition in the same manner !or e °ther measure that comes beferenlr Some one had said that the re*hufnm Um toe s heet anchor of the .lot xv r ’ 4 and * think it is. I people do eh® it an t Prohibition, try to improve ■•mfkf ? or trade, but every time we atis vZL}° do that the Prohibition aPrty puch opposed to it. There has f'iti o a heavy majority against Prohijil.’ and I think there would be as Ui e *°r the im P of