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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12668, 2 December 1905, Page 4

JUST A FEW OPINIONS! Last Friday a public meeting of Ashburton Residents Strongly Recommended AH Electorates to try NoLicense. The Chairman of that meeting was Dr. Trevor, a welL-known and highly respected medical man. Would you like to know his opinion ? Here it is : DR. TREVOR said :" He was not v a Prohibitionist and not a Total Abstainer. He did not vote on the last occasion in Ashburton for No-License, but for Reduction. Since then he was convinced that NoLicense had been utterly and entirely satisfactory. He had lived as - long, or longer in the town than anyone in the room,, and he had never seen it so cleanly, so orderly and so pleasant to live in as it was now. Undoubtedly, therefore, he would vote for NOLicense on the coming occasion. Nothing- in this world woulfi prevail upon him to vote for the re-opening of the bars." You're afraid about Rates/ are you ? Read this, then : RIGHT HON. JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN : "If the desire for strong drink were removed we should see our taxes removed by the million. We should see our Gaols and Workhouses empty " RIGHT HON. W. E. GLADSTONE, the Empire's Greatest Financier: " No Treasurer need ever trouble himself about the loss of drink revenue, for the saving in expenditure would far outweigh it. Give me a sober people and the Revenue will take care of itself." These opinions are justified by New Zealand experience: PORT CHALMERS, under NoLicense reduced its rates 3d in the £. BALCLUTHA, GORE, MATAURA have not needed to increase the Rates a Single id. ASH BURTON increased its Rates to pay off an Overdraft contracted under License, but after two years of NoLicense Reduced them by 6d in the £. Electors in every No-Li-cense Electorate in the colony are| thoroughly convinced Of its success, and advise everybody to try it. Wanganui Electors, Follow the Example of those who know they have A Real Good Thing! Strike Out the Top Line!