NATIONAL PROHIBITION
MEETING IN THE KING COUNTRY. The Rev. J. Dawson, general secretary of the New Zealand Alliance, has returned from a trip to Ohakune. Mr. Wesley Sprang, president of the Alliance, and Mr. Dawson had a conference of workers at Ohakune on Saturday afternoon, when between fifty and sixty persons attended from various districts with in a radius of a dozen miles of Ohakune. The fact that the proclamation of the King Country is being attacked by the anti' Prohibition party is, according to Mr. Dawson, arousing the people in the King Country to increased activity for the maintenance of the covenant entered into about thirty years ago between the Government and the Maoris for prohibition in the King Country. At a public meeting held in Ohakune on Saturday night forcible addresses were delivered by Mr. Dawson, Mr. Spragg, and j\lr. Robert Ferguson, one of the temperance organisers for the City of Auckland. Mr. L. M. Isitt conducted three meetings yesterday at different places, and will address a meeting at Ohakune tonight in the interests of national prohibition. Mrs. Lee-Cowie conducted three meetings yesterday at Ohakune and Rangitana in furtherance of the temperance cause.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 152, 29 June 1914, Page 6
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195NATIONAL PROHIBITION Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 152, 29 June 1914, Page 6
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