NO-LICENSE CONVENTION.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 844, 16 June 1910, Page 4

NO-LICENSE CONVENTION.

PLANS FOR NEST WEEK.

Arrangements aro now practically completed for th(- Dominion No-License Convention, to be held in Wellington on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of next week. The following members of Parliament are expected to take part:—Messrs. T. E. Taylor, J!. 11. Taylor, C. H. Pcole, A. S. Malcolm, R. A. Wright, and H. G. Ell. The conference meetings will bo held in St. John's Schoolroom, and public meetings ou Wednesday and Thursday nights in the Town Hall. The principal business at the conference meetings will l>o consideration of the negotiations carried on during last. session with "the trade." There will b« one session at which the; representatives of twelve NoLicense districts will testify to the successful working of No-License. At the Wednesday night public meeting Mr. Wesley Spragge (Auckland) will preside, and Dr. Henry and Mr. T. E. Ttylor, M.P., v;ill give addresses. On Thursday night, the Rev. p. W. (Jhattorton (Gisborne Maori College) will take the chair, and the speakers will be Miss Stirling (Maori missionary), Rev. P. Bennett (Rotorua), Rev. R. S. Gray (Christohurch), and Hot. L. M. Isitt (Wellington). Mr. and Sirs. C. A. Potts and the United Mission Choir will take part. The Sunday following the convention will be observed by a great many Wellington churches as Temperance Sunday. Many of the ministerial delegates to theconference will preach from the various pulpits, and a combined thanksgiving ser- , rice will be held in the evening in the Town Hall.