PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 12622, 19 November 1908, Page 6

PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY.

(Per United Press Association.)

DUNEDIN, November 18

At the meeting of the Presbyterian Assembly to-day the following resolution was agreed to: — "That this Assembly records its gratitude to God for the success attending the local option polls yesterday. It heartily congratulates those electorates which have carried No-License for tho first time, and those in which reduction has been carried, and rejoices that wherever previously in force No-License had been maintained. The Assembly would add a special w\)rd of congratulation to the No-License people of Dunedin for the magnificent result of their fight, and the Assembly looks forward to complete victory at the next Local Option Poll. The Assembly further renews iCs determination to wage increasing war against the evils of the liquor traffic, and in view of the evils wrought by this scourge on our race this Assembly would hail with acclamations of joy and thanksgiving the utter extermination of the traffic in intoxicating liquor as a beverage, t>y tho power of Christian conscience, public opinion, and the strong arm of the civil law.