THE DRINK QUESTION.
WHAT TIIE WAR HAS SHOWN. A NEW ZEALAND COMMISSION SUGGESTED. Wellington, Last Night. An important announcement was made by the president of the New Zealand Moderate League at a farewell function tendered to Mr. N. L. Pearson by his fellow-members of the Central Executive yesterday. The president stated that' the League would deputationisa the Government as soon as arrangements could be made for the Prime Minister to receive them, and they would ask that the whole of thensuggestions of reform should be carried into effect, and, in order that the matter might receive the most careful investigation they would urge the im mediate setting up of an impartial Royal Commission of Inquiry. The prominence given to the liquor question by events rising out of the war in Europe would mean that the subject would now be much more thoroughly studied than formerly. The president said the fact that the British Government had decided to entertain the suggestion of prohibition, in spite of an apparent need for drastic action, and instead were legislating for better regulation and control, was the strongest possible endorsement of the moderate viewpoint as propounded by the league.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 286, 12 May 1915, Page 8
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194THE DRINK QUESTION. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 286, 12 May 1915, Page 8
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