NO-LICENSE IN ASHBURTON
DECENT STATEMENTS DENIED. Frees Association. ASHBURTON, July 13. At a largo mooting in the Theatre Royal an. address was given by Mr H. D. Bedford, under the auspices of the Ashburton No-license Council, to-night, nnd the following resolutions were unanimously carried; —(1) “That this meeting of over 000 people emphatically contradicts the statement carried by resolution at a recent local meeting of less than thirty persons that nolicenso has enforced debasing and degrading systems and practices upon Ashburton, and this meeting further affirms that in Ashburton no-license has considerably reduced drinking and drunkenness and all its attendant evils.” (2) “Whereas opponents of prohibition having always urged that the CO per cent, majority was necessary on nil licensing questions for stability, and whereas these same opponents arc now by resolution urging that restoration should be carried by a 40 per cent. Vote, bo it resolved that the Prime Minister’s attention he called to the renouncing and repudiating of their ‘stability’ sophistry.” _____
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8784, 14 July 1914, Page 7
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163NO-LICENSE IN ASHBURTON New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8784, 14 July 1914, Page 7
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