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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2309, 30 September 1908, Page 3

NO-LICENSE IN THE CLUTHA. v\ TESTIMONY QF TRAVELLER. A GENTLEMAN wlio some years ago was travelling in the Clutlia district for a provision linn in Dunedin, which also held a wine and spirit license, has volunteered the following interesting statement: ■ “I have often felt indignant when I saw the falsehoods that were told about the No-Licenso areas, particularly about the people of Clutlia, whom I know so well, and who have been so kind and hospitable to me. “My experience of the people of Clutlia is that you could not find a nicer and more hospitable and cleaner-living' people anywhere. Several times a year it was my duty to call round the greater part of the Clutlia on business connected with my firm. Each trip took about six weeks, and in very many cases I partook of their hospitality, board-ing-houses not being convenient. I was, of course, taking orders for tlic wines and spirits, if any such were given to me, but my instructions were not to push the spirit part of the business, as my employers, being decent men, did' not wish to do anything to nullify the No-License law. However, particulars of all kinds of liquors wore in the price-list. If there had been any large demand for liquors for consumption in the homes, I should have soon known all about it. Each trip I called upon hundreds of houses ill. all parts of the Clutlia Electorate. Every one of tb&se houses could have ordered spirits with their groceries, and it would have been in most cases by far the most convenient way for them to get ' their supplies. However, it gives a deadly blow to the talk about the vast amount of liquor supposed to be used in the -homed in No-License areas when 1 say tliat I often went the whole round of all my hundreds of calls, and only received about four orders of one bottle each. “At the same time as this was. talcing place it was being stated all over New’ Zealand that the Clutlia was reeking with liquor, and that it was imported in great quantities all over the district. My experience is all against the assertion that- a great deal of liquor goes into private houses m No-License districts, and surely I ought to know. “I am glad to make this statement publicly, as the untruths that have been told have been for years vilifying a- most respectable community.” —“CLUTHA LEADER” Aug. 18, 1908.

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