PETONE NO LICENSE LEAGUE.
1 Thoro waß'i good'attoridnnco at tho meeting of tho' No-licenso Eeagud on Monday evening, hold in Ihirt Victoria; Street Hall. : Tho Kev. A. The following contributed .itcnis.-,16> tho ■programiiie.— Miss Bat-, tersby, andrMessrs.-iHenry, Hntchinson, Robertson, Tratle, and llouso. The Cluiiruiiui, in introducing'the speaker, said that few .sensible people were satisfied with the present state of the liqutir traffic. , ' Ho then introduced Mr.; Bvron Brown, "nnd ! asked him to deliver ,an address! iMr'.'dSrownf'Mn Bjlcnking, showeil how the peoplo!iofr.:Now Ke;ilaiid had spent over jE2oo,ooo,'oWiorjtw.oht4 - -twb: times their national debt, on jntiorieatiugi■liquors, and enumerated tho blei-sing.iKiroh a|,s,umof money would be to this Dominion-now;,,, We \vere spending over .£5,000,001) .drink, said . M,r. Drown, and this moneyi .wasi, ||'pck6tnd by 7000 people.. It is not man who drinks who.pays tho - rcTonuo'i'-bnt 'other '.sober' Incn, who had to umko it up"ori' tlptHca"-and food, the cost of which would- 'be 'greitly reduced if. all" were sober. A lie'ilrtV' votc'ibf , thanks was given Mr. Brown at thoxend of'his address. ■" ■ .
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 54, 27 November 1907, Page 8
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165PETONE NO LICENSE LEAGUE. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 54, 27 November 1907, Page 8
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