NO LICENSE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13603, 25 May 1908, Page 6

NO LICENSE.

TESTIMONIAL FBOM OAMARU.

Per Press Association

OAMARU, May 23

Tie Mayor of Oamaru Laving answered a series of questions sent from Timaru in regard to the condition of the town nnder nolicense, the letter -was laid before business men and professional men and & hundred signed a jstpstamenti thai, they consider the Major's answers correct. The letter stated:—(l* That the statement as•erting that no-license had hindered progress and that the town was financially bad because ;of it. was contrary to fact. |Vi Property hi'd advanced i»« vi>toe. (5> The rates had been reduced by 3d in the & owing to the increase of revenue from all sources. (4) Business had decreased in 1907 owing to drought, but had quickly recovered. (5> More houses Bad been erected last year than in any recent year. f6) Crime had decreased greatly, the convictions being 442 and 142 for the eighteen monthly periods preceding and following no-license respectively. (7) Drunkenness was rare in the streets, and at public gatherings. The signatories include all the doctors, headmasters of schools, most of the buiders, the president and secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, and representatives of all classes of business.