Corrections Christening. Electors what connection have " tactics in Timbucto " or effusions from people named Smith •or others, with a letter signed "H. M. Macgibbon." We do not know the latter, but it may be safely assumed that the Editor of the Matailra Ensign, does. Mr. Macgibbon's letter was clipped verbatim from that paper. Also, note that the evils complained of were rampant enough to call for a LEADING ARTICLE. There is no mistake about this quotation from the same leader, "The, ugly fact must be faced that BOYS in Gore are being ensnared by the liquor habit." How, when, or where the damage is done must be a controversial question. The fact remains Gore is a No-license town and we fearlessly • affirm that no Wanganui Hotel= keeper would serve boys and they would have great difficulty in pro= curing liquor. NO=LICENSE, or rather No Control, sweeps this safeguard away. Oodes 1 No-License. Eighteen Sly-Grog Gases. (Per United Press Association.) ASHBUBTON, November 24. At the Magistrate's Court to-day eighteen informations against nine persons for alleged slygrog selling were called, and on the application of the police adjourned for a week. People of Wanganui— PO you realise what this means. Police=lnspector Pardy: " Enforcing the Act in the only manner possible is repugnant and degrading alike to the police and public." It means that paid informers are engaged to trap the sly-grog sellers, and then ensues the per* jury, evasion, fraud, deceit, and bitterness mentioned by Police Commissioners Tunbridge, Dinnie, and the Magistrates of the district. These men speak offici= ally and know, unlike so many of the one = eyed faddists. \ i As the Prohibitionist has ceased to exist, and the No» License person is a wolf in sheep's clothing, for the purposes t)f this column they are hereby banished, and they will in future be known, appropriate^, as the J" ■•" REMEMBER ON ELECTION DAY, LEAVE THE TOP LINE UNTOUCHED. STRIKE OUT THE TWO BOTTOM LINES.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11724, 27 November 1905, Page 4
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323Page 4 Advertisements Column 5 Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11724, 27 November 1905, Page 4
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