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"Anything but a wowser” is how the Sydney “Sunday Times,” of June 18th last, describes the Rov. R. B. S. Hammond, rector of St. Barnabas, Sydney, who is to address the mass meeting in the Town Hall on Wednesday next at 8 p.m., when the prohibition party hold a rally. The “Times” continues :—“A Victorian by birth, he first became known in this State as a first-rate athlete, and, on the cricket and football fields he was a favourite with, the crowd a quarter of a century ago. He has a healthy contempt for humbugs, and in spite of his cloth does not suffer fools gladly.” Mr Hommond is undeniably Australia’s lending prohibition orator, and apart altogether from personal opinion for or against prohibition, he is wall worth listening t%

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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11253, 4 July 1922, Page 8

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Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11253, 4 July 1922, Page 8

Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11253, 4 July 1922, Page 8