MR FOWLDS ON PROHIBITION.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 281, 1 June 1907, Page 4

MR FOWLDS ON PROHIBITION.

[PJBR PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, May 31. Speaking to-day at a dinner tendered by the N.Z. Alliance to Mr Race, the Canadian Exhibition Commissioner, the Hon. G. Fowlds. Minister for Education, said that the testimonial recently signed by the business people at Ashburton, left no doubt that prohibition was a great success there. During the last two or three weeks he had visited Invercargill where the no-license system had been interfered with by the opening of beer depots on the boundary of districts. This was never meant to be the case, and some steps would be taken to remove the affront to the people there; this, notwithstanding that there was unusual testimony that the operations of no-license were beneficial to the town. Business had ' improved, and even people who were I opposed the no-license admitted that j Invercargill was now a much cleaner place. The general tendency of the whole colony was to go forward, not back.