NATIONAL PROHIBITION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 1049, 9 December 1911, Page 4

NATIONAL PROHIBITION.

i One of the, boost remaaikaibk features of tlie' licensing pod! im New .Zealand on Thursday wara the tremeaiidous vote registered for Naitlonal Inhibition. As wie opined would be thio case in* our issue of Ilhursday morning, the No-I'icense cause suitered in consequence of the major (issue having beem submitted. A large section of the community wve of opinion that we -should have "aM or nothing-." And judging froan the vote on Thurs-;..-:y, it wouilkl sieem that tli/ere is. not a tar reach between- /mow and absolute prohibition. Out of-over 450,000 v»tes recorded, there were less than' 9,000 short of the three-fifths majority required, for NiatlitoaiaJ BrdbiMtion. This -represents only a little, over tflireo per cent, of tdie whoto. It can. p'Jiafoily be seen thnit it woulld :rejpHJre a reversal of onTy 5000 or 6000. votes to have carried pirohibitKon'.. The pesitiiem is- a most interesting one ,to those A\ho are watching the trend of public feellimg. Thte vote oif Ttarsday should impress thos'? engaged in the Trade with-the necessity for: immediately placing their house in order. The advocates of prohibibitioiir scored a triumphant victory onThursday, and they have every reason to feci optimistic, despite tlie fact that they did not gain a single access ion. to the n.umibei- of No-license ureas-.