TEMPERANCE AGITATION.
[press association telegram.] WELLINGTON, July 20. A deputation, consisting of Messrs Joyce, "VYithy, Buxton, and Goldie, M.H.R.'s, together with Mr T. W. Glover, lecturer to the New Zealand Temperance Alliance, interviewed the Premier this afternoon. Mr Glover, who acted as spokesman, explained that a mass meeting of the combined Temperance Societies had been held in the local Salvation Army Barracks on the previous evening, when a resolution wad carried appointing the deputation to wait upon the Premier at his earliest convenience, to urge upon him the necessity of fixing a day for the discussion of Mr Fulton's resolu ion on local option with regard to the liquor traffic. Sir Harry Atkinson replied that he should be pleased to assist the deputation in their endeavor to get Mr Fulton's resolution discussed, and he would consult his Cabinet as to whether a day could be set apart, and would then confer with the friends of the temperance cause who had seats in the House.
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Press, Volume XLV, Issue 7124, 21 July 1888, Page 5
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TEMPERANCE AGITATION.
Press, Volume XLV, Issue 7124, 21 July 1888, Page 5
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