MANIFESTO FROM INVERCARGILL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13663, 30 March 1908, Page 5

MANIFESTO FROM INVERCARGILL.

Per Press Association.

INVERCARGILL," March 29.

The Mayor and one h,tindred loading business and professional men have signed a statement iirawn up by His Worship with regard to the results of no-license fifere. The statement declares: — . , ,t (1) No-license ha 3no detrimental mflnence'i on the value of propertyl (2) Public order in" the streets has greatly improved, persons under the Hinuenco of drink being seldom seen. (3) The moral tone has necessarily improved. (4) In the best interests of growing youth they would not like licenses restorod. (o) The reform can bo recommended to other places for a triai. This statement has been mado by the Mayor in reply to anonymous assertions regarding th? above points made in various newspapers in the colony. The signatories who support the Mayor includa welt-known medical men and solicitors and leading evangelical ministers,* most of the wholesale merchants, all the newspaper authorities, and r«spr«isentative .members of every branch of civil and commercial life.