LICENSING LEGISLATION

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 191, 22 November 1910, Page 5

LICENSING LEGISLATION

RESOLUTIONS FROM WELLINGTON. ' By Telegraph.—Press Association. ' Wellington, Last Night. Mr. T. E. Taylor, M.P., addressed about 800 people in the Town Hall tonight on the liquor question. The speech was devoted to a. discussion of the amending Bill just pasSed by Parn liament, and to an analysis of the changes made in the law. He generally ! approved the measure as being the best, ' i from a. prohibition point of view, that could be expected, or possibly obtained, from the present Parliament. After Mr. Taylor's address the following resolu- •' tions were carried:

"This meeting congratulates Parliament upon giving the people the right V... to vote upon national prohibition, and, whilst expressing its resentment of the three-fifths majority being retained 'in the law, pledges itself to do all in its power to carry no-license in the electorates, and prohibition for the whole Dominion, at the polls next year." "That this meeting protests against ■ ' the retention of the three-fifths majority in our licensing legislation, as being designed to protect property at the expense of the country's highest interests." • "It further pledges itself to use every ' effort to have this unjust burden removed from the democracy; also to have breweries within no-license areas made subject to the people's vote, and to have the period after which a successful national prohibition vote will operate reduced from four to two years<"