WELCOME TO MR J. HUDSON

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29153, 14 March 1960, Page 15

WELCOME TO MR J. HUDSON

Temperance Speaker’s Visit “I have come to learn something about your faults,” said Mr J. Hudson to the Mayor of Christchurch (Mr G. Manning) and a group of clergymen and a number of persons interested in the temperance movement at an official welcome to Mr Hudson in Christchurch. Mr Hudson said he had been sent by the parliamentary temperance committee in Britain to learn something about Australia and New Zealand and their licensing laws.

“I have not come here to teach. You know too much already,” Mr Hudson' said.

In discussing social problems, Mr Hudson quoted a remark he had made a number of years ago, “You cannot make progress in the things you want to if this lion ‘Drink’ lies in the path.” Mr Manning welcomed Mr Hudson to Christchurch and said how both he and Mr Hudson were at one time members of the Inpendenant Labour Party and that they had both spoken on temperance issues.

Token Import Licences.—A recommendation that the New Zealand Retailers’ Federation approach the appropriate Government department regarding an increase in the basis on which token import licences are issued was adopted at the federation’s annual conference at the Chateau Tongariro. It was said that a licence of £2O for many imported goods was merely of nuisance value.—(P.A.)