HUTT AND PETONE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 789, 12 April 1910, Page 7

HUTT AND PETONE NEWS.

(From Our Special Correspondent.) —— 1 hutt ico-licexse league. At, tho Petone Polico Court yesterday two applications for prohibition orders were granted by' Messrs. Inglis and Short, J.P. S, to apply to theHutt and'jurrounding districts. Sergeant Foster left Pctono by the i o clock train yesterday for Palmerston A ortn to assist in the hunt for Powclka. Constable Murphy, is. in charge of the station hero pro'tern. The usual monthly meeting of the Hutt No-License league was held in St. Augustine s -Hall 'yesterday evening. There was ?s attendance, and an exceedingly 'bright * musical programme was presented. .Mr. Janson occunied the chair, and the speaker for the evening was the i j* • • Cottam. The chairman, in in--traducing the speaker, explained that Mr. Cottam was the new Primitive Methodist. punster;- and' gave him a royal welcome to .the ranks/of the league. •< - Mr. Cottam, who was loudly applauded, said Jie nad been called' a : "new chum,"' which was hardly fair, ho thought, since he had been here twelve months. He thought he could safely talk a little about No-License. "Before he left the Old Country-he'was told by a gardener to take plenty 'of clothing because of the intense cold in New Zealand. He replied that he doubted if the climate could bo colder than in England. But the gardener said, that there was so much frozen mutton coming from thero which proved how cold it ; must be..(Laughter.) Mr. Cottam congratulated New Zealand on,the active steps it htaL taken to fight the /liquor traffic. ' He then "proceeded to 6peak of the drink evil at Home, and he hoped the day was not far distant when the Old Country would take the same active steps : as ; New" Zealand. (Applause.) In the fight in England the brewers were .determined to hold their own'against the Temperance party, and did rji in theirpower to block the Licensing Bill. Mr. Cottam then urged his hearers to bo on their guard, to work and leave no stone unturned, and when the great' event for which they were all toiling was achieved then could New; Zealand bo pronerly called "God's Own Country." '(Loud applause.)' ;The following contributed songs, etc.. to the programme The Misses Adcock", S. Udy, Watkins, and Messrs. Chamberlain, Clough, Delahunty, Watkins, Rose,, Blake.