LICENSING QUESTIONS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7976, 6 December 1911, Page 2

LICENSING QUESTIONS

FEELING AT WAIHI. MOTION FAVOURING RESTORATION CARRIED. PRESS ASSOCIATION. WAIHI, December 5.. A meeting of supporters of the local •restoration movement hold last night was also attended by a large number of Nolicenso advocates, the building being packed. Tho meeting -was addressed by air Moresby, solicitor, organiser of the Restoration League. At the close of tho meeting a resolution in favour of Nolicenso was* moved by a No-lichuse leader but was lost. At this stage tho NoUcenso portion of tho audience retired, and tho following resolution was then carried unanimously:—'‘That this meeting endorses tho Mayor's statement that Waihi has received neither moral nor material benefit under No-liconse; also that it believes tho effect of No-license has been pernicious to tho welfare-of tho district, and tends to loArer tho morals of the district by tho encouragement of .deceit and. lying. .... .•‘Mr Jordan, No-license agent, attempted several times to address street audiences after the meeting had closed. 'He was bustled off his stand several times, but eventually got a hearingMEETING AT AUCKLAND. ■ , DISORDERLY PROCEEDINGS. PRESS ASSOCIATION. * AUCKLAND, December 5. A No-liocnso mooting in St. -Benedict’s Hall last night. t was . presided over by, tho Hon. G. Fowlds. Five* speakers, advertised as Uni vo r s ity ’studcfljts, spoke, and were subjected to considerable interruption and disorder. _ A motion proposea by- on© of the audience 'on behalf of University students present protesting against the speakers being advertised as representing the University was handed to the chairman, who declined to receive it. A section of the audience expressed' indignation, and, amid' yelling and hooting, the mover of tho motion was led out of tho hall by a constable, his friends singing “For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow" and jeering the chairman. The meeting continued to bo rowdy, and before-the close no less than six- persons were ejected'by the police for causing a disturbance.