FUTURE CONTROL OF LIQUOR.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 September 1919, Page 9

FUTURE CONTROL OF LIQUOR.

LORD irARERXOXr, ADVICE TO TEUPKUAXCE P.'VHTY, London, Juno 13. Lord "D'Abernon, Chairman oi tlij* uiqlior Control Board, received yesterday■ a deputation from the Temperance Council of the Christian Churches, including the Bishop of Croydon and Sir Alfred ' Pearce Gould, which urged that there i should be ntf further relaxation of restrictions pending legislation. Lord D'Abernon said the main question w was not how to devise measures to tli'eet further improvements, but to main-' tam the ground gained without infringing personal liberty. This was not a matter for the Board, which was a war fmergency body. A new regime had to be established, and it was clear that it 1 ~e ""J l ' l ' Parliamentary control, lie believed they could carrv a large majority of the public with them in dev sing new measures based on recent experience, which would effectively secure improvements compared with ihe prewar period, and which would not interfere with the habits, customs, and ploasi.res of the people to an undue extent. To achieve this result temperance would have to look into and revise it" I'logramme almost, as much as the trade. He asked them to living fresh minds to the study of the problem. He believed, b.rge sections of the trado recognised that sobriety was vital to the well-being oi tho trade, and discussion between intelligent representatives of the trade and Iwders of the temperance thought vfbuld result in the discovery that there were many points in common between them, .'(l'd that their objectives were not necessarily incompatible.