[unclear: Effect] Veto Resolution Adopted by the House of Representatives in 1889.

Whereas the enormous direct expenditure on intoxicating liquors in this Colony [unclear: amounting] annually to more than two millions sterling—contributes largely to [unclear: existing] depression, adds materially to crime and poverty, and reduces the [unclear: the] available for reproductive industries; and whereas the people under the [unclear: having] law are powerless to remove the principal cause of these evils, it is, in the [unclear: pasion] of this House, imperative that the Government should, without delay, [unclear: produce] a Bill giving power to the people, by Direct Vote at the Ballot Box, [unclear: redically] taken, to prohibit the sale of such liquors within the district in which [unclear: beside]."