ELECTORS OF DUNEDIN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15301, 15 November 1911, Page 9

ELECTORS OF DUNEDIN

READ THE FOLLOWING. 101 BONA FIDE BUSINESS MEN SIGN PETITION AGAINST NO-LICENSE IN ASHBURTON. . It is not 101 and others, bat 101 BUSINESS MEN. NOT A SINGLE EMPLOYEE, BUT ALL ' MASTER MEN.

READ THIS: WE, THE UNDERSIGNED SHOPKEEPERS AND BUSINESS MEN OF THE BOROUGH OF ASHBURTON HEREBY AFFIRM THAT THE CARRYING OF NO-LICENSE IN THIS DISTRICT lIAS BEEN DISTINCTLY DETRIMENTAL TO OUR BUSINESS. WE ARE FAITHFULLY OF OPINION THAT RESTORATION OF LICENSED . , HOTELS WOULD BE BENEFICIAL TO ASHBURTON. Horo follows' tho signatures of 101 BONA FIDE BUSINESS MEN. REMEMBER, NO CLERKS OR EMPLOYEES, BUT MASTER MEN. I, ARTHUR ROSE, Organiser of tho Ashburton Restoration . Committee, do solemnly and sinooroly declare— : 1. THAT I havo obtained 101 signatures to tho aCovo. written statements. ,2. THAT tho-said signatures were ap,'pended to th'o said statements in my ' presenoc, and aro the' signatures of bona ' fide shopkeepers. and business mou in tho'Town of-Ashburton, and I inako thij solemn declaration, conscientiously believinc tho eamo to bo trno, dir! under and by virtuo of an act of the Ccaera,l Assembly of New Zealand, entitled "The Justices of tho Poaeo Act. 1903." ARTHUR ROSE. Declared at Ashburton aforesaid by the said Arthur Itoso this 29th day of August, 1911, before mo. , , . f , T. E. UPTON, A Justice of tho Peace in and for tho Dominion of N.Z.

. WE, THE UNDERSIGNED, hereby certify that we liavo examined tho signatures to tho abovo written statements, and, further, that tho samo are to our knowledge tho names of 101 bona lido shopkeepere and business men of tho Borough of Ashburton. Dated (his 29th August, 1911, T. E. UPTON, W. H. RULE, Justices of tho Poaeo in and for the Dominion of N.Z.