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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 303, 16 September 1908, Page 10

HOW NO=LICJENSE SUCCEEDS. ■ , SOME FACTS AS TO ASHBDRTON'S PROSPERITY (?) Has No-License succeeded iii'-'.'AshburtonP This is a question very pertinent just now, for it appears, almost by ..common consent, that Prohibition stands "or*"falls"By ""A'sliburton's record. Here, then, aro some-nuts for Prohibitionists to crack 1. They say No-License will reduce the ratesAsKKurtb'ii , s"rat6s"liSWinfcT6a'sed'"uns der No-License,from jDd,. .« 2. They say' businoss*pr6spe"fs Under No- • (License': On tile; authority.;of Mr...Bryant,; (himself in- business in Asliburton as a baker), '.'Nearly every .'retail«business-in; the town is in the. market' for sale,' alid town sections arc unsaleable." •' Over 60, businesses'have alroadj' changed hantis.'s > . 3. They,say there are' no bad debts id No- ; License areas: In Ashburtou, under NoLicen&e, the amounts sued 'for in the Magistrate's Court have increased 49 per cent. At the sitting of the District 1 Court at Ashb'urton on September 9 no less than nine bankruptcy, cases were dealt with. 4. They say that No-Licenso increases sobriety and'diminishes crime: 111 Asliburton, ■ under No-License, total police offences have increased by 2.27-per cent.,- those ■ offences ' relating to liquor by' 10.75' per cent. 5. They say under No-Licenso wo can do without, police: 'Asliburton (population 2563) finds wqrk for a sergeant and five constables, besides' 'innumerable spies. G. They say No-License is . a "crowning success": The above facts show it to bo a most ghastly failure, if not-a crime on the community. • i If it' lias l so signally failed in Asliburton, , can we reasonably expect it to succeed anywhere? C 905