PROHIBITION PROSPECTS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8133, 1 December 1904, Page 2

PROHIBITION PROSPECTS.

MR T. E. TAYLOR'S OPINION. [press association.] CHRISTCHURCH, November 88. Speaking at a social gathering o£ the Prohibition League. Mr T. E. Taylor, M.H.R., indulged in some anticipation* as to the result of the next licensing poll. He said Ashburton and Mataura ha* accumulated evidence in favor of no-license, and they were certain to . sweep a number of adjacent electorates into the movement. He quoted the remarks made by the Rev. H. Purchas at the Anglican Synod, in favor of the effect of prohibition at Mount Somers, in the Ashburton district. Mr Purchas, who was never led away by excitement, and wnote remarks carried much Weight, had stated* that Mount Somers had been turned from a drunken noisy town to a place where Ecrfect order prevailed. Men who had eon confirmed drunkards 'had become sober, and boys no longer fell into drunken habits. Mr Taylor asserted his willing* ness to prophesy that at the next licensing poll Ashburton would sweep in with it both Courtenay and Selwyn. The prospects of the next licensing election were infinitely brighter than two years ago. Temperance workers could look forward to the most remarkable licensing poll tne colony had ever known.