THE LOCAL OPTION ISSUE.
(Per United Press Association. ) QHRISTCHURGH, December 4. At a meeting of the Canterbury Cricket Association to-night' the advertisements relating to the local option poll and purporting to have been decided on at a meeting of sports' delegates were discussed, and a resolution- -unanimously carried declaring that the advertisement had been published without the authority of the -association; . and condemning the terms of the advertisements./.'. - rV. ~■.;."'_. '•■' '•■' ■"■■''.':' -
'A Christchurch correspondent telegraphs : ''The Chrisfcchurch Athletic Association are indignant at the action* of the secretary,, who is also secretary of the Licensed Victuallers' Association', and wb^> has associated with himself three men only, all identified with" the liquor trade—one of them the secretary of a swimming club, | another a private member of'an athletic association, and the third not in any way identified with athletics. The four, after the delivery of a few notices ait about 9 a.m. on Thursday, met in a hotel at 10 a.m., ana published themselves as representatives of the Sports Association..' Mr Tom Reese,' a well-known cricketer,: has published a repudiation-." - . ■:. ' -
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 11598, 5 December 1899, Page 5
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175THE LOCAL OPTION ISSUE. Otago Daily Times, Issue 11598, 5 December 1899, Page 5
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