NO- LICENSE MOVEMENT.
COMMENTS BY MR. FOWLDS.
'. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.]
Wellington, Friday. Speaking to-day at a dinner tendered by the New Zealand Alliance to Mr. Race, the Canadian Commissioner at the Exhibition, the Hon. G. Fowlds (Minister for Education) ; said that • the testimonial recently' signed by; business people at Ashburton left no doubt that prohibition was a great success there. During the last tiro or three weeks he had visited Invercargill, where the no-license system had been interfered with by the opening of beer depots on the boundary of the district. This was never meant to be the case, and some steps would be taken tc remove the affront to the people there. , .
This notwithstanding, added the Minister, .there was unusual testimony that the operations of no-license were beneficial to the town. Business had improved, and even the people who were opposed to nolicense admitted that Invercargill. was now a much cleaner place. The general tendency of the whole colony was to go forward, not back. .'■' '.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13453, 1 June 1907, Page 6
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