ASHBURTON AND LIQUOR.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 135, 14 July 1914, Page 3

ASHBURTON AND LIQUOR.

TWO RESOLUTIONS. Press Association. ASHBURTON, July 13. At a large meetftig in the Theatre Royal addressed by Mr 11. D. Bedford, under the auspices of the Ashburton Nolicence Council to-night, the following resolutions were unanimously carried: (1) "That this meeting of over 500 people emphatically contradicts the siatement carried by a resolution at a re-cent local meeting of less than thirty persons that no-license has enforced debasing and degrading systems and practises upon Ashburton, and this meeting further affirms that in Ashburton no--I'cense has considerably reduced drinking and drunkenness and all its attendant evils." (2) "Whereas the opponents of■ prohibition having always urged that the (50 per cent, majority was necessary on licensing questions for stability, and whereas these same opponents are now, by resolution, urging that restoration should be carried by a 40 per cent, -vote, it be resolved that the Prime Minister \s attention be called to the renouncing and repudiating of their 'stability' scphistrv."