NO LICENSE.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 13016, 2 July 1906, Page 5

NO LICENSE.

THE CHANGE IN OAMARU.

Per Press* Association.

OAMARU; July 1.

The change from, license to no license was quietly effected here on Saturday night. Two of the. hotels closed' doors at) 6 o'clock, but the rest remained open tU| II o'clock. So far on'y one property has changed hands. Is three other cases tf»e houses have been leased to new tenants am boarding-hotiKes, and in the other seven the previous'licensees carry on as in the past for a while. Two hotel bars in Thames street have been let as shops. KEEN FEELING IN THE SOUTH. , INVERCARGILL, July 1.. v - Invercargill came, under no license at ■lO p.m. 'last night. One hotel closed at 9 o'clock, r,, There were some noisy denv- ' cheering, " singing of "AxAA Lang Syne," etc.', and many people, were on the streets out of curiosity, although the night was bitterly cold. Several.of the hotels be turned to other uses and tie, papers are full of furniture sales, sothat accommodation for visitors will lie considerably ) curtailed. , Meantime tfie opmion is pungently expressed that-if a vote could be taken now the majority of ten by which licenses were abolished would be reversed." Invercargill has had half a century of'licensed traffic in liquor and its people are and have been law-abiding and peaceable... It is now stated on good authority that there are many sly grog shops springing" up. The local breweries have erected,, stores on the confines of the electorate from which to supply householders and others.