PROHIBITION LEAGUE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XX, Issue 2382, 21 March 1893, Page 2

PROHIBITION LEAGUE.

There was a well attended muting of the Hawera Prohibition League held in Davidson's Hall last evening, when it Wat estimated fully eighty peraoas were p . r lßent|,?l Bent| ,? Iar * c P e «»ntage of them beint either old members or those freibly joined. The President briefly referred to tht dia» ooauon which it was proposed to hurt, and invited aoyone present to give big ot her opinion as to whioh they considered best for this colony— total prohibition, the direct veto, or the Gothenburg system of licensing— and said tbat at the OIOM ot the evening tbe opinion of tbe meetiof would be taken, and whichever measure \ earned tbe most number of votes would V win the day. Tbere were a number of very good speeches delivered during the evening on the total prohibition sideof tbt question, whilst other propositions found no warm supporters, so tbat at the close of tbe discussion, and when it was put to thi vote, total prohibition won by a large majority. The business brought before the League was a letter which it was pro* posed to write to the New Zealand Alliance on behalf of Mr. E. Tennyson Smith, testifying to the good tbat be lias done in the colony, and Hawera in particular, and suggesting to tbe Alliance tbe desirability of tbeir taking, him up, and in tbe event of their consenting to do so, the Prohibition League would promise the Alliance their full support. Tbft letter was well received, and was signed by twenty-fire persons, in addition to the t president and secretary. Mr. B. C. v, Bobbins took ocoasion to remark that all J the other Prohibition Leagues in the eolonj proposed writing similar letters - toftfe#V Allianoe, and eaob to bear as. many members' signatures as possible, wben ii was hoped tbat the Alliance would set tbeir way clear to avail tbemselvss of Mr. Smith's services.