THE LICENSING BILL.
More Trade Condemnation, LOXDOX, March 10. { A crowded meeting, representing j 100.000 brewery deben'ure-holders, held ' in London last evening, and presided I over by Lord Rothschild, unanimously | enmiemnrd the Licensing Bill as not proiroling temperance, but the confiscation of properties. hord Rothschild stated that the bill would injure millions of shareholders and poliryholders. The extension of the time limit to 21 years was no compromise. He warned the Government that the city I would always make its voice heard in the ' long run. Mr. Walter Long I formerly Chief Secretary for Irel.nd'i. Lord Halsbury, nnd , Lord Avcbury condemned the measure, j
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 69, 20 March 1908, Page 5
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