NO-LICENSE CAMPAIGN.
MRS BARTON AT-TE AWAMUTU.
The local Town Hall was packed on Sunday evening on the occasion of the address given byMrs Barton, ex-city councillor of Glasgow. Besides -the speaker, there were on the stage, Revs. Clarke, Woollass and Lamond. After a brief speech, the Rev. Clarke introduced the speaker. Hearty applause greeted Mrs Barton as she rose and soon the people realised that they were listening to the expressions of one who was a veritable expert in the subject of No-License Reform. From the very first roll of the rich Scotch " bur-r-r," to the closing eloquent appeal, Mrs Barton held the intense interest of the audience. Her remarks were marked by great strength and saneness, and according to the frequent rounds of applause proved very convincing to those present. As one with wide experience in dealing with the unemployed, she was pained to find that any such thing existed, as it certainly did, in some parts of New Zealand. This was largely caused, however, by the incompetency arising from drinking habits, and she said that with the money expended annually in drink, the workers of the Dominion could purchase all the industries and run them to the interests of the people. That if the £6,000,000 spent in liquor was released for profitable industries, instead of employing only nine thousand people as now, it would open up emplovment for sixty thousand in this Dominion, and so the unemployed would largely cease. Dealing largely with temperance reform in the Old Country, Mrs Barton stated that the Licensing Bill lately by the Lords, had of Great Britain behind it. Scotland was rapidly becoming an abstaining country,over 68 per cent, of her people being to-day total abstainers. If the people of Great Britain only had the vote as New Zealand, they would speedily end what they know fully to be their greatest curse. Mrs Barton combatted the prevailing errors over the position in Maine showing that Maine had rejected the proposal to alter the Constitution, according to the recount by a majority of 784 votes.
At the conclusion of iier remarks Mrs Barton was accorded a unanimous vote of thanks,
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Waipa Post, Volume II, Issue 59, 7 November 1911, Page 2
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