NEW ZEALAND ALLIANCE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 309, 26 June 1912, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND ALLIANCE

THE DOMINION CONFERENCE ■ | By Telegraph—Press Aawektioß. 'I Wellington, Tuesday. \ The Dominion Conference of the New 1 | Zealand Alliance opened to-day, Mr. 1 Wesley Spragg presiding. The annual | report stated that the Tote (or Ne» \ License had steadily increased at eaek 1 poll, rising from 49,000 in 1883 to 284,058 1 in 1911, when the majority in faror of | No-License was 54,282. Reference wat i made to the alleged misrepresentation by '1 the trade concerning the prohibition j vote in Maine. It was stated that the ■ churches had helped the Ho-Lieeiwe movement, but Archbishop Redwood's ■ attitude was deeply deplored. The .print ed rolls, used in the recent campaign, contained many thousands of names which had no right to be there. The rolls had 5000 more names than there- . were adults in the Dominion. A deter- • mined effort would have to be made to remove the unjust three-fifths majority. Wellington, Last Wight. ; The Dominion Convention of the New Zealand Alliance opened to-day. Resolutions were passed reaffirming the de- '• mand for a simple majority and for the . abolition of the four years' delay in the coming into operation of prohibition when carried; also that the Licensing . Act should be amended to prevent the employment of unlicensed barmaids in private bars, as well as in puhlie tan. '