NO LICENSE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13658, 29 July 1908, Page 6

NO LICENSE.

MR HARNETT'S ASSERTIONS.

REPLY BY MINISTERS,

Per Press Association

INVERCARGILL, July 28.

The assertions of Mr Harnett, manager of the British Football team, were considered at a meeting of the Invercargill Ministers' Association, when the following resolution was cairied: —"This Association of L-ivercargill ministers places on record its protest against the gross misrepresentations and wild statements alleged to have been made by a Mr Harnett in an interview at Auckland on Saturday last in which he deprecates the inferior accommodation of the hotels, the extensive drinking in private houses, the appalling drunkenness in the streets, the fraud and deceifl of the inhabitants and the complete failure of no-license reform. These charges' are completely answered in the manifesto published over the signature of the Mayor and one hundred leading citizens of Invercargill, many of whom are not identified with the* no-license movement, but who have given emphatic testimony to the splendid results accruing from the . introduction of the reform. This Association expresses regret that Mr Harnett should have adopted the'-.courageous (?) method of besmirching the name of our town and attacking, the private, habits and character of our citizens on the eve of his departure from the Dominion, thereby precluding an outraged community" from asking that he substantiate his charges and failing" to prove them demanding in the interests of justice, truth, and honour their withdrawal."