27 SEPTEMBER 1919, Page 10

ITo THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

Ent,—It may be of interest to your readers to know that the policy of State Ownership is receiving the support of the

Labour Movement in various Colonies as well as in Great Britain. Thus the Labour Party of New Zealand decided on this policy at its recent Conference at Wellington, and State Purchase is to be submitted as an alternative to Prohibition at the forthcoming Referendum in the Colony in December next. I have no doubt that the policy will be as unanimously supported by the rank-and-file of the workers in New Zealand as it is certain to be by the workers in this country.—I am,

Organizing Secretary, The United Garment Workers' Trade Union- Lillie's Chambers, 39 Albion Street, Leeds.