NEW ZEALAND ALLIANCE MANIFESTO.

Taihape Daily Times, 20 March 1919, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND ALLIANCE MANIFESTO.

WHAT DOES PROHIBITION MtAN?

THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS.

The following is the complete text of the opinions of Messrs. C. P. Skerrett, K.C, A. Gray, K.C., and P. J O Uegan, barrister and solicitor, aftof Wellington: 1. We are asked to advise succinctly what acts a person "will he prohibited from doing, if National Prohibition should come into force in New Zealand pursuant to the provisions of the Licensing Amendment Act, 1918.

2. We advise that in that event a person may not do any of the following things: (a) He may not manufacture intoxicating liquor of any

description, even for his own private, personal, or domestic use. (b)

He may not import it into New Zealand, (c) He may not sell it, or have it in his possession for the

purpose of sale. 3 The doing of any of theoe prohibited acts is constituted an offence against the Statute, punisbaMe by a fine not exceeding £IOO in the case of first offence, and by imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months in the case of a second or any subsequent offence.— Dated March 6th, 1919. (Signed)

C. P. SKERRETT, A. GRAY, P. .1. O'REGAN.

WHAT TUB N.Z. AETJIANCE SAYS

A STRONGLY WORDED PROTEST

"To make the possession of liquor a crime, the effective detection of which would require the correlative right of search in every house would be to establish an odious and inquisitorial tyranny entirely foreign to the fundamental principles of British law, and to the whole spirit of British liberty.

.• . We protest, against the threatened invasion of the privacy of the home by inspectors of police against the espionage that clause 9 (total Prohibition—no license, no liquor)—■ would produce, against the strained relations and suspicions that will arise amongst neighbours, against the incentives to breaches ,of the peace on the part of decent, self-respecuhg citizens, which would accompany inquisitorial questionings and "lo'miciliary visits, and above all, against the insidious attempts to handicap . a great and genuine social reform by attaching to it an unprecedented invasion of private rights and liberties.

"Signed for the Executive of the New Zealand Alliance, FRANK W. ISITT, Secretary, J. DAWSON, Chairman. September 7th, 1904. September 7th, 1904.

You must therefore vote for Con-

tinuance. Even every Prohibitionist, who would avoid what the Rev. John Dawson, now President of the Now Zealand Aliance, calls "an odious and inquisitorial tyranny" must vote for Continuance. If the Moderate does not wish to made a criminaF "by the possessio of liquor under Prohibition

he, tooi must vote for Continuance. Every woman jind housewife who re-

veres the sanctity of her home must vote for Continuance by striking out Bottom Line on April l-lth—PrtbS&a-ed by arrangement