NO-LICENSE MOVEMENT.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 160, 31 March 1908, Page 7

NO-LICENSE MOVEMENT.

BARE MAJORITY AFFIRMED. ; • (liY . TELEGRAM—riir,6S ASSOCIATION.) ; Wostport, March 30. -At; the conference of no-licenso representatives from all parts of the Bullor - electorate, 'the Rev. Rugby Pratt ; presiding,, tho principle 'of deciding tho licensing issuo^by a baro majority was affirmed. • 'Tho.-confer-" onco askod * for ft Dominion no-lioonso voto' by a simple majority, and- also for licensing voto at every general-election, whetkor threo years had elhpsod or not. ; ;-V • A TEN DAYS' CANVASS. J-.-.' Chrljjohurch, March 30. • The' prohibitionists held a great no-licenso rally in tho Opera House on Siuiday, evening.- It waß decided-to open ,the .campaign with a ton days' . canvass, to. raiso . £1500 'to conduct ,ah even more vigorous :■ crusade than those of former 1 years against .tho drink tr Messrs. T. E. Taylor and H.' D. Bedford, ox-M.H.R's.,' were the speakers. The meot>ing very enthusiastic, and 150 collectors woro appointed. ' THE CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOL. CDV TELEOBAPB— SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT,)'' Christohiirch, Maph 30. Speaking, at a, groat temporanco meoting hold hero last night, Mr. 11. D. Bedford said that it was estimated by a liquor organ •in' Vienna that in, 18 months the. amount of 1 alcohol consumed in tho-world was of such valuo that all tho gold coin m tho world would bo required to purchase it. In Now Zealand, in tho past 37 years,}as much money .had boon spent on alcohol as would havo built all tho railways, redocmed tho wholo ,of the public debt, and left a balanco which would havo carried on the function of government for another, year.- Last; year tho money paid to men and boys engaged, in all tho manufacturing industries of tho Dominion was just a few thousands more than was spent in alcohol, tho ,sum of which was equal in valuo to all the buttor, cheese, and frozen moat exported during the year. The same amount spent in alcohol was threo times as creat as all tho local rates levied and collected bj\ all the local bodies ■ in tho Do-: ■ minion, in ono year. • 1 '