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Premier Drury-- will personally oppose the submission to the Prov-- ince of a referendum on the \I'Jf'-"'f tion of Government--controlled salei of liquor. Without making spor:mr:!' reference to the question,. which, upon the motion of K. K. Homuth.' lLabor member for South Waterioo, will shortly be submitted to the Legislature, he stated unequivocally his mind on the subject before a' deputation of prohibitionists whu: waited on his Cabinet yesterday. ' "My opinion has been and is," he| said, "that the Ontario Temperance| Act is on trial, and I am prepared to resist attempts at the present' time for new votes by the people. contemplating its modification. 1| have held 1| must resist such at-- tempts because it was essential that the law, for a while at least, must remain undisturbed. We are getting wonderful results from it in the ; amelioration of social conditions in'§ our Province." | Hegaded by Father 1. Minel:an.l' Rey. Ben Spence,. Dr 'C.. 'Albert Moore and Mayor Cooper of Clin--| ton, the, deputation laid before the Government the combined views of prohibition organizations in On--> tario, prepared the night previous by their legislative committees. They | asked for abolition of the exemption | at present given under the O. 'P. A. to the sale of, native wines, a Pro-- | vince--wide investigation .into the | effects of distribution of intoxicat-- ing wines and a change in the sys-- | tem of issuing liquor prescriptions. | While promising the serious con-- | | sideration of his Government to the | | requests put -- forward, _ Premier | Drury, in turn, asked prohibition-- | ists generally to take two things into | their consideration. He asked them ; to consider whether they thought it | would be wise to take the O.T.A. | out of the special sphere which it | had come to occupy--that of altera-- , tlion unly upon approval of the elec-- iuwatfi at large--and whether they | felt it would be advisable to submit | a.rt*{e}'vnd::sx» on the question of dis-- | tribution and sale of native wines. ;