EFFECT OF NO-LICENSE.
HON. G. FOWLDS’ VIEWS
Press Association.
WELLINGTON, last night
Speaking to-day at a dinner tendered by the NrZ. Alliance to Mr. Race, the Canadian Exhibition Commissioner, the Hon, G. Fowlds, Minister for Education, said that the muiiray * signed oy : "DUsl--ness at Ashburton left no; doubt that prohibition was a great success there. During the last two or three weeks lie had visited Invercargill where the system had been interfered with by the opening of beer depots on the boundary of the district-. "This was never meant to be the case and some steps. would be taken to' remove the affront to the people there. Notwithstanding this there was Unusual testimony that the operations of No-License were beneficial to the. town. Business had improved- and even people who were opposed to No-Lieense_ admitted that Invercargill was now a much cleaner pla-ce. The general tendency of the whole,.- colony was to go forward, not back. . .*■■■■
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2095, 1 June 1907, Page 2
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156EFFECT OF NO-LICENSE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2095, 1 June 1907, Page 2
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