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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13557, 30 March 1908, Page 6

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ITS EFFECT LY INVERCARGILL. FAVOURABLE STATEMENT FROM I -BUSINESS MEN. I '.'.; Per: Press* Association. ■i. •" INVERCARQIIiI,; March 29. i The: Mayor and 100 leading business and professional, men, liave;/signed a -'statement drawn up by his worship with regard to the results of. no, license here. The-statement declares :*r-?~•'■''■■ .1. That no-license has no detrimental influence on the value of property; -' 2. That public order .in. the'street has been' greatly improved, persons''under the influence of drinlc being seldom' ■ *een. .' •.■•*■"". 3. That! the moral tone has neces/arihi improved. ■ 4. That-in the best'-ihterests of the growing youth tliey would not like toi see licenses restored. 5. That the reform can be recom-" mended to other places for trial. This statement' has;been-, made by theMayor in reply to anonymous assertions regarding the- above points made ,in van- ' ous newspapers in the, colony. -The/signatories who support■.the Mayor include well-known medical men, solicitors, leading evangelical ministers, most of 'the wholesale merchants, all the newspaper proprietors, many ' educational authorities, and a representative list of every branch of civil and commercial life.