The Waiapu Reform League.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 710, 5 January 1903, Page 2

The Waiapu Reform League.

(To the Editor of the Times.) Sir, —Is the above association dead, or only sleeping ; or is it just the electioneering dodge which many-supposed it to be? If it is still alive, is it not time that if showed some signs of vitality ? Tt ma y be deemed a far cry to the next licensing poll, but it is not nearly so long to the next session of Parliament, and there c be little doubt but that tlqe sorely scat trade will then make a desperate effort secure some alteration in the lioens law which will give them a greate- sec of tenure, and it would be well /or - cause of reform if our representatives . Parliament were emphatically informs, this constituency, at least, will not willingly accept any platform of amendment which has not for one of its most indispensable planks the elimination of the element of private interest from the manufacture and sale of alcoholic drink, jf the League is willing to lead, let it begio ai once, and it will find many hundreds of adherents. New Zealand leads the world in many important matters of social government ,• might not Waiapu lead New Zealand in instituting some sane reformation. in a business which most people realise must be either reformed or destroyed.?—l am, etc.,