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Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12844, 29 November 1905, Page 2

IS THE TIME TO, INVEST IN A NEW UP-TO-DATE BRITISH BUILT BICYCLE . . . . . . . . IS THE OPPORTUNITY TO GET ABSOLUTELY THE BEST VALUE IN CYCLE TYRES OR REPAIRS ! IS THE TIME TO CALL AND SEE MARK i HIGGINS, AGENT FOR B E E S TON - HUMBER, MASSEY - HARRIS, AND CROWN CYCLES NEAT STRONG UP-TO-DATE PRAMS AND GO-CARTS AT MARK HIGGINS' CYCLE DEPOT.

Temperance Sunday, 3rd Dec., 1905. TRINITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. BARNARD STREET. Services will be conducted by the Rev. Thomas Stinson, 8.A.. at 11 o'clock in the morning, and at 6.30 o'ciock in the evening. Trinity Presbyterian Church. At the recent meeting of the General Assembly of the Presbvielian Church, held at Auckland, a resolution \ras UNANIMOUSLY adopted "rejoicing in the continual and increasing evidence of the benefits of no-license in e!ectora«es vrhere the issue had beea carried and maintained ; exploring the increase of drunkenness among colonial young men. and the mr.ay tragic fatal results -which had bte:i reported as due to the influence of intoxicating liquor; and cordiaUy ur 8' R R all office-bearers ;inJ people to vote for the removal cf drinkingbars at the approaching election poll." The Assembly also recommended that " Temperance Sunday" be observed in all c\ir Churches and Mission Stations throughout NewZealand.

Ashburton Again LETTER OF A WELL-KNOWN* LADY TO THE SYDNEY " MORMXG HERALD." (To the Editor of the " Herald.") Sir, —I have bad copies of tbe Sydney papers sent me lately containing accounts oi "no license" in Ashburton, Xew Zealand. Tbe report is so contrary to iact that I Lave decided to cull lrom official returns and from the letter of the verv newspaper commissioner himself to show sensible people the magnificent- results of the experiment in no license. I read the whole of tlw commissioner s article wLea it appeared in the "Lytteiton Times," and happening to be in -Ashburton about tbe very time ot iiis investigations I was naiura.l\ inteiested in bis report. He admits tne piu.vpoiuy of Ashburton under no license, ;:„u that the amount placed to the credi,. ut the depositors in the Savings Btisiks erceeos t!:at of anv ot the seven yeai> preceding ISJ4-5. The ijurotjgii valuation has increased over £IOOO. the Ashuunor. 1 ermanent Building and investment iSocietv is prosperin™ 1 . Business is incie.ising. while crime and drunkenness have decidedly and largely decreased. Although he reported the good effects of to license, he, in his deductions, tried zealousiv to deprecate its benefits. .Someone has tiaiy said: "A man without a bias is a man without a brain," and our reporter has proved he is not without a brain by manifesting a decided bias toward the wltl decayed, tottering system of legalising the open bar. Xow. whatever faults we as Britons may find in the no liccr.se- system, the old licensing method' as a prevention of dtunkenness is such an utter and arrant failure that we as enlightened people are viewing it with ever-increasing contempt and disfavour.

Failure, big and black, is written over the licensing laws of Great ami (iseater Britain. mid for the saving of our nation fr«;n the acknowledged "national sin" of drunkenness we must try some other plan. Afiy man in no license territory can gel in drink freely and openly if he wishes to have it iu his own home., so the siory about the 15.000 bottles collected ii; livt and half months may be quite true, especially when you remember that a c.i!o with 600 members was open all this time, and there are hotels still open, in Ashburton county, though closed in Ashbnrton electorate. The closing of 'he liquor bars com pletely kilis ihe " shouting' habit—that deplorable and baneful snaie for so m:»r,y business lne.i and generous-hearted fel.ows; and this in .itself is an immense gain to the society of the place. Sly grog selling is far worse in other parts of Xew Zealand than in no Jicenyu territory, the figures laid before the Hot>? some time ago being:—Ashburton, 19 convictions; Matanra. 12 convictior.s: Clutiui. 1 conviction; Bruce, 2 convictions; Port Chalmers, 1 conviction; total. 33 convictions. / These were no license electorates. In Egmont a licensed area, for the f-ame period of lime, the convictions were 81. The prosecutions against pub'icans, the very men who are supposed to keep.the laws enacted for the good of the community were: Auckland, 27, convictions 14: Napier. 2T. convictions 13; Wanganui, 21. convictions 13: Wellington, 3. convictions 3; Greymouth, 21, convictions 14; Christchurch. 20, convictions 10; Dunedin, 6, convictions 2; Invercargill. 10, convictions 10. I still j quote from official returns. ' I have been in every no license electorate in the colony, the three that Lave had the rights gained by the people through a three-fifths majority at the ballot box. aad the three that were robbed of their British rights through trivial little technh-.iK-ties. and, seeing for myself the magnificent results of shutting the liquor bars. I shall return to my beloved Australia to work with might and main for similar good to accrue to us. and then — " There'll be work for everybody. And we'll all get better pay. When the birs re closed forever. And tha drink is'pwcpt away.' I are. B. HARRISON LKK. Ashbnrtos. August 25!b.

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