—As a student at Victoria and as a member of the Executive of the New Zealand Alliance I was amazed to read the reference by "Partisan" in the last issue of your paper to the alleged failure of the New Zealand Alliance to express its disapproval of the licensed trade in its flagrant disregard for the law as shown by its organised flouting of the price order on beer. Readers of your paper should be able to trust that as a student publication its outbursts would be based at least on the very minimum of research required. "Partisan's" failure to take the trouble to consult the New Zealand Alliance leads me to suspect the reliability of any of his utterances. The failure of our daily newspapers to report the relevant resolution of the Alliance is no excuse for "Partisan's" unjustified reference. Perhaps the matter was sub judice at the time the resolution was passed, for prosecutions were pending for breaches of the price order.

For your information the following resolution was passed on this matter at the recent Annual Meeting of the New Zealand Aliance:

"That we view with concern the attitude of disrespect for law demonstrated by the Licensed Trade in its organised flouting of the Price Tribunal Order regarding retail beer prices. Apart from the merits of the lease, we believe that the law, even when inconvenient and unpopular, should not be defied for selfish reasons."