INVERCARGILL IS BEATING DUNEDIN.

Evening Star, Issue 14574, 24 May 1911, Page 2

INVERCARGILL IS BEATING DUNEDIN.

TO THE KJJITOB. Sir.—Previous to last campaign Mr A. S. Malcolm, M.P., said at the Early Settlers’ Hall: “ From our experience of No-license in the Clutlia 1 should say thal now Invercargill has Dunedin will need to look to its laurels. Unless Dunedin shortly tarries No-license too, in my opinion Invercargill will catch up and pass it in the race ol progress.” Events are already Arangoly hearing out Mr Malcolm’s words. Only the other day I saw a paragraph from tho ‘iSouthland News' stilting that " an Invercargill builder said that scarcity of labor had delayed building operations in Invercargill of late, though the supply had been recently supplemented from Dunedin and elsewhere.” Here we have the very thing, The No-license area is having to augment its supply of building hands from tho License area. What does this moan except that building is more active there than! here (especially, strange to say, in the hotel line). Invercargill has increased, comparatively, more than Dunedin in the last five years in both population and new buildings. This ia, no doubt, not all due to No-license, but some of it is clue to that. This is not surprising, for it only duplicates the American and Canadian experience, and wo in Dunedin ought to adopt No-license too in order 1 to keep up with our virile Southern competitor. —1 am, etc.. Loyal Duxemmte, Mav 23.