A WARM RECEPTION.
PROHIBITION A FAILURE
[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.J MASTERTON, March 20
Mr Bedford commenced an open air address on prohibition on Saturday night in the presence of over a thousand people. He had a trying time, being subjected almost continualy to loud hooting and yelling. Cheers wye re given for both sides of the question. Then Mr E. G. Eton, chairman of the local Hospital Board and a member of other public bodies, got up on tlie platform and denounced prohibition as a failure from a business point of view. Mr Jabez Bridges, no-license organiser, was then refused a hearing. Then Mr Cameron, another vell-knonw resident, put a motion in favor of restoration, and this was declared carried hv an overwhelming majority. It was the rowdiest gathering 'held here for 20 years.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3174, 21 March 1911, Page 3
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133A WARM RECEPTION. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3174, 21 March 1911, Page 3
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