HUTT AND PETONE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 814, 11 May 1910, Page 3

HUTT AND PETONE NEWS.

(From Oar Special: OorresDondcnt.l « NO-LICENSE LEAGUE. The monthly meeting of the Hutt NoLioenfie League was held on Monday evening in St. Augustine's Hall. There was a good attendance, and an address was given by Mr. T. Towns end, who Baid that State legislation had prohibited, the use of liquor as early aa 2200 B.c. Tracing the movement down to the eighteenth century the speaker remarked that drinking'to excess, according to Goldsmith and others, was thought little of. But in England and America a wave of feeling "was making itself felt so strongly that now it was a question of vital importance. The speaker also dealt with the changes in the churches. Whereas, in times of old, these were indifferent regarding the question, now all denominations had taken, a decided Btand ■ for prohibition. COUNCIL MEETING ADJOURNED. The Lower Hutt Borough Council met on Monday evening, there being present:—Councillors Baldwin, Barlow, Hayes, Kempthorn, Maoaskill, Pearce, and Clere. In the absence of the Mayor (Mr. E. P. Bunny), Councillor Baldwin was voted to tho chair, and will act DeputyMayor during Mr. Bunny's absence. The following telegram was read from Mr. E. P. Bunny (at present at Auckland),expressing his sense of sorrow at the death of tho King. The DeputyMayor then moved:—"That this council place on record its sense of the great loss sustained by the Empire by the death of his Majesty King Edward VII." The resolution was carried in. silence, all standing. The council then adjourned till next Monday night.