THE BARE MAJORITY
A TEMPERANCE CONFERENCE. By Telegraph—Press Association. Invercargill, Last Night. The United Temperance Reform Council, together with delegates from theAwarua and Wallace electorates, met in conference to-day with Mr. Wesley Spragg and the Rev. J. Dawson, president and secretary respectively of the New Zealand Alliance. Messrs Spragg and Dawson explained that the Alliance were seeking through various temperance organisations to secure pledges from 15TO to 3000 electors in each constituency not to vote for any candidate for Parliamentary honors who would not promise to support the simple majority for the licensing queston,or at least a material reduction of the present handicap. It was stated that the Alliance could get nothing further from the past or present Parliaments, and that decisive steps would have to be taken if its object wereto be achieved. The conference unanimously agreed with the principle of the Alliance's proposals.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 100, 13 September 1912, Page 5
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145THE BARE MAJORITY Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 100, 13 September 1912, Page 5
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