NO-LICENSE SQUABBLE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 95, 5 December 1911, Page 6

NO-LICENSE SQUABBLE.

ROWDINESS AT WAIHI. (Ter Press Association.) Waihi, December 5. 'A meeting of supporters oi the local restorations movement, held last night was also attended by a large number .of No-license advocates, the building•being packed. The meeting was addressed by Mr Moresby, solicitor, organiser of the Restoration League. At the close of the meeting a resolution in favour of No-liccnse moved by the No-license leader was lost. At this stage the No-license portion of the audience retired and the following resolution was then put and carried unanimously: “That this meeting endorses the Mayor’s statement that Waihi has received nci t here moral nor material benefit under NosHconse; also that ih, believes the cjfi'<?dt pf No-licen,sc has been .pernicious to the welfare of the district by the encouragement of deceit and lying.” Mr Jordan, Nolicense agent, attempted several times to address a street audience after the mooting bad closed. was hustled off his stand several times bui eventually got a hearing.

A SERIOUS ALLEGATION. Wellington, December 5. Interviewed by an “Evening Post” reporter on the subject of the Rev. Mr Hammond’s telegram His Grace Bishop Redwood said : Mr Hammond’s telegram to me is in direct contradiction to the account of the interview which he had with the editor of the “Tablet,” which account the said editor declares to be scrupulously accurate; and, further, I say that Catholics have a natural and divine right to the unfettered possession of .the necessary matter for the great Catholic Eucharistic sacrifice. Therefore, it would he an insult to their reason and their faith to accept it on the precarious tenure of pie-crust political promises or of a clause in an Act of Parliament which might be and certainly would bo repealed if Prohibition came to prevail in the Dominion.