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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 77, 13 November 1911, Page 3

CLUTHA’S TESTIMONY TO CLOSE HOTEL BARS A Large Public Meeting was belt! at Balclutha on August 16th, 1911. RESOLUTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY—“This meeting of citizens of Balclutha, which S has now enjoved NO-LSCENSE for a period SI OF OVER 17 YEARS desires to reaffirm “its entire confidence in the vaiue of NO“LICENSE LAW= Under this law our “town has steadily improved both in its law--abiding character and its material progress. “To-day we are PRACTICALLY WSTHOUT “GRIME or an empty house in the borough. “The wall of the Drunkard’s Wife and Child “is not heard in our midst., and we are not “raising a new crop of Drunkards from among “our voimg men. While we thank God for “these blessings, and we COMMEND LOCAL “NO-LICENSE to the people of New Zealand, “we also commend as a still greater achieve“ment the National Prohibition of the Liquor “Traffic In 1911. We believe that such a step “would bring nothing but blessing and prosperity to our fair Dominion.” WE CHALLENGE “THE TRADE” To show a record like this in any town in the world with an Open Bar. CLUTHA’S RECORD OP GRIM& FOR THREE YEARS “BAR SHUT.” DRUNKENNESS OBSCENE LANGUAGE ASSAULTS • INDECENT ACTS VAGRANCY BURGLARY THEFT BREACH OE PEACE Totals 1910 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 rhe 7 drunks in 3 years were all arrested as they came off the tram from a License district, it l, nearly S "cars since a Balclutha resident was convicted of Drunkenness, rhl eaTluAa Lock-up was not used for 51 weeks-August, 1910 to July, 1911. ABOLISH THE TRAFFIC THAT DEGRADES AND DESTROYS. STRIKE OUT THE TOP LINE ON BOTH PAPERS. Compare Stratford under License and its Criminalßeturns,yearl9ll,ll months3popuation 2637; Criminal Cases (not by-laws) from Ist January, 1911, to 31st Oct, 1911. 13 cases. STRATFORD, under License. 143 or 10 months. STRIKE OUT THE TOP LINE .ON BOTH PAPERS.

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