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■MEETING AT PETONE. A mass meeting under the auspices of the Hutt Valley No-License League was ' held in the Lyceum Theatre, Petone, yesterday afternoon. The chair was occupied by the Mayor (Mr. J. W. . M'Ewan). The first speaker was Mr. A. R. Atkinson, who, after referring to the recent meeting in the Town Hall, said that it 1 was difficult to draw a line between the Moderate League and the Trade. Nothing proved the value of Prohibition so .much as the present great war. Russia had prohibited the sale of vodka and France the sale of absinthe, while another example was Lord Kitchener's admonition to the British Expeditionary Forces to abjure wine. Mr. W. Phillips, an evangelist from Virginia, U.S.A., spoke on the effect of Prohibition in the States. He contended that moderate drinkers should _***Vote for "the other man," for whose -^crimes, arising out of drink, they were morally responsible. „_ At the conclusion of the meeting the speakers were accorded a vote of thanks, proceedings terminating with the singing of the National Anthem. An open-air meeting under the auspices of the Hutt Valley No-License League was held last evening, when "_' addresses werb delivered by Messrs. H. Grinstead and T. Townsend.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 131, 30 November 1914, Page 8
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202NO-LICENSE Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 131, 30 November 1914, Page 8
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