AUSTRALIAN.
A NEW MODERATOR. Press Aasociation-By Telegraph-Copyriglii MELBOURNE, May ID. Professor Skene has been elected Moderator of the General Assembly. Received 11.55 p.m., May 19th. WELCOME RAIN. SYDNEY, May 19. A good rain, ranging to .over two inches in the coastal districts, has relieved the dairying situation. '" Feed ■was getting very scarce. - THE LIQUOR QUESTION. Mr Brnnthell, secretary of the New South Wales Alliance, referring to Mr Ranking's report, on the New Zealand licensing laws, said it was as fair a report as'could-be expected from a man who* had hurried through the Dominion in three 'weeks. Mr Ranking's bogey seemed to be the skeleton in the no-license cupboard, or, in other words, drinking in the home. There ■was no evidence to support this; it •was merclv an assumption.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13908, 20 May 1909, Page 6
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128AUSTRALIAN. Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13908, 20 May 1909, Page 6
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