LIQUOR CONTROL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 March 1942, Page 4

LIQUOR CONTROL

N.Z. ALLIANCE DEMAND FURTHER REPRESENTATIONS TO GOVERNMENT. COMMONWEALTH PROPOSALS CITED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, -This Day. The executive of the New Zealand Alliance last night carried a motion calling the attention of the Prime Minister to a message from the Bishop of Aotearoa congratulating the executive on the attitude it had adopted in regard to “laxity on the liquor question,” and stating that what was true of the pakeha was true of the Maori. The motion informs the Government that the executive has received numbers of representations urging it to call unceasingly on the Government to take such immediate action for curtailing and controlling the liquor' traffic and its evils as will be in keeping with Labour’s ideals of the moral uplift of the people, outlined when the party was put into power, and in keeping with its numerical strength and avowed antagonism to monopolies and the grave national crisis the country faces. The urgency of the matter in the interests of efficiency in the war effort is emphasised. Attention is drawn to a move in Australia for the control of breweries and hotels for the duration of the war and to the attitude of Messrs McKell and Curtin and the announced intention of the latter to transfer labour from all uneconomic industries to spheres that will contribute towards victory. /