TEMPERANCE ITEMS

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4797, 11 August 1894, Page 2

TEMPERANCE ITEMS

The following petition signed by 562 persons—24s from. Mastcrton'; 250 from Pahiatua; , awl 67 from Eketaliuna—was forwarded to the New Zealand Alliance Olfice to-day: 11 To tub Hox. tub Speaker of ran HOOSBOF RKI'IiKSKSTA'I'iVKS in Pakuamkxt Assembled,

The petition of tlie : undersigned residents in the Colony of New Zealand of tlie ago of twenty-One years and upwards, -"' , Humbly slioweth, that your Honourable Hotise is not yet possessed of such information as will enable it to judge of the number .-.of persons in New Zealand who desire that the importation/ manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquor as a beverage should'be prohibited. Your petitioners tliereforo humbly pray that your Honourable Hotise will cause to be taken, within twelve mouths from tho receipt of this petition, or as early thereafter as conveniently may be, a Ballot Voto of the Parliamentary Electors upon the question of tho Colonial Prohibition of the Liquor Traffic, submitting tlife issue in the followingterriis upon the voting paper':— : " Are you in favour • of the im : mediate prohibition by law, throughout New Zealand, of tlio importation, manufacture, and sale of intoxicating liquors as a boverago ? Yes or No."

And your petitioners ever pray, etc. Tlie petition measured 21 feet 6 inches in leiigth, The prevailing epidemic considerably interfered with . the collection of signatures in'-'Mas? tertoii. A supplementary list of about ;150'nanies has yet to be sent from Pahiatua. ' ; -