INVERCARGILL UNDER NOLICENSE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2584, 19 August 1909, Page 5

INVERCARGILL UNDER NOLICENSE.

UNFAVORABLE STATEMENTS CONTRADICTED. (Per Prc** Aaxnciatkm J WEI dbINGTONf* August 18. A few mouths back, Air. Hanking, a Queensland .Magistrate, visited ,\<nv Zealand on a tour, of investigation into tin; results of Ncr-license in parts oi this country. .On 'returning to I’ri.sbano, Air. Hanking gave-"expression to remarks, of a character not altogether' favorable to the condition of tilings imlor tho “dry” regime, especially in the South. Tlicso adverse ei'iticions have brought forth a. sworn dec'-, ration . rom dr. William Benjamin Siremir/1.., <re Invercargill, as follows: “That 1 was Mayor of the Borough of Invercargill in* tho year in which Nolicense was carried there, end continued Mayor for almost three year■; afterwards. That in the year following the carrying of No-lie on so in Inve:cargill, the capital vs.hio. of- }u.'o|;!...riy in I.[to borough iuofcaked h v :CI3J),QO-f in round figures. A'though license fees had been lost to tho revenue, the rates levied by tbo •Council were reduced by 'MO of a .penny i,n the am' they have not boea raised since the M.vying -of No-becne in Invereavg!]). The outward rep;;. of one.geLio bu ain-a- i. •; arc more apparent. * Many shop’;-.'pres have extended their buxine.;. •. )'. ••• vm’.'-nd: 1. 1 ; !;<••••; < • e’<- re; : burem/re freul in thy lares, In pniren-a."':-* of la :' re/EEm from iho Aluuleipal (.'aw.il of inreoreargdl, tho Borough ’lnrerredrer on 7th Septpmfce a 1:908 (two v two n : nths after the bars had been closed) reported as {ol’ows: ‘I am fully ,of the lact that vlStnderous Mreieuremts have been cireidated in respired ire the present condition of botes and beardinghouses, as against the time of license, hut, after careful investf igat.on of all the fads for and aagin t changed cortd t ; nu-;. I am firmly .I' opi;,ion that •••• hotels and hoarding hni-os at Dm uresent time are as. good, red in rente cases betre than under former -...re -rev stances. 5 55 The declaration was duly signed before Mr. It. Cuthbortson, J.H.. and stamped.