NO-LICENSE CAMPAIGN.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3392, 6 December 1911, Page 3

NO-LICENSE CAMPAIGN.

THE FEELING IN ASHBURTON. WILL LICENSES BE RESTORED? uSPECIAL TO TIMES.J ASHBURTON, Dec. 5. There is a strong feeling that Ashburton will revert to license. Your correspondent, who has known the district for thirty years, and who considers that he can gauge the feeling fairly accurately, is of opinion that restoration will in all probability be carried. _ It is considered in the outlying districts as well as in Ashburton itself that the accommodation for the travelling public would bo better than it is even at present if well-conducted hotels were opened.

A ROWDY MEETING

[unit CRESS ASSOCIATION,] AUCKLAND, Dec. 5

A no-license meeting at St. Benedict’s Hall last night was presided over by the Hon. G. Fowlds. Five speakers, advertised as University students, spoke. They were subjected to considerable interruption and considerable disorder. A resolution, proposed by one of the audience, on behalf of the University students present, protesting against the speakers being advertised as representing the University, was handed to the chairman, who declined to receive it. A section of the audience expressed indignation, and amid yelling and hooting the mover of the resolution was led out of the hall by a constable, his friends singing “For lie’s a jolly good fellow,” and jeering the chairman. The meeting continued rowdy, and before its close no less than six persons had been ejected by the police for causing a disturbance.

WAIHI ANDS ITS BENEFITS. WAIHI, Dec. 5

A meeting of the supporters of the local restoration movement was held last night. It was also attended by a large number of no-licenso advocates, the building being packed. The meeting was addressed by Mr Moresby, solicitor, who had organised the Restoration League. At the close of the meeting a resolution in favor of no-licenso moved by the No-licenso leader, was lost. At this stage the No-license portion of the audience retired, and the following resolution was then put and carried unanimously: ‘‘That this meeting endorses the Mayor’s statement that Waihi has received neither moral nor material benefit under no-license; also that it believes the effect of nolicense has been pernicious to the welfare of tlie district, and tends to lower the morals of the district by the encouragement of deceit and lying. Mr Jordan, the No-license agent, attempted several times to address street audiences after the meeting had closed. He was hustled off his stand several times, but eventually got a hearing.

ALTAR WINE

WELLINGTON, Dec-. 5

Interviewed by an “Evening Post” reporter on the subjeet of the Rev. Mr Hammond’s telegram, his Grace Archbishop Redwood said: “Mr Hammond’s telegram to me is in direct contradiction to the account of the interview which he had with the editor of the Tablet, which account the said editor declares to be scrupulously accurate, and for this 1 say that Catholics have a natural and divine right to the unfettered possossion of the necessary matter of the great Catholic Eucharistic sacrifice. Therefore it would lie an insult to their reason and their faith to accept it on the precarious tenure of piecrust political promises, or of a clause in an Act of Parliament which might lie, and certainly would be repealed, if prohibition came to prevail in the Dominion.” A FURTHER STATEMENT. DUNEDIN, Dec. 6. The foliowuig telegram was despatched from Dunedin this morning to Archbishop Redwood, Wellington: ‘ r Wo must respectfully reiterate that in an interview accorded to the editor of the “Tablet” we made it emphatically clean that nothing had been said or intended, to warrant even the faintest suspicion that we, who were responsible for the exemption clause as regards sacramental wine, ever purposes, or would consent to annul it.—R. B. S. Hammond, G. B. Nieholls.”