NO-LICENSE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1280, 8 November 1911, Page 5

NO-LICENSE.

1 REV. MR. HAMMOND AT TOWN HALL. The Concert Chamber of tho Town Hall was comfortably filled last evening when the Rev. 1(. B. S. Hainmo-nd again delivered an address upon "No-I.iceuse." Tho l?ev. J. Dawson was in tile chair. The speaker began by referring to tho benefits which those places in New Zealand where No-License now operated were enjoying. There had, ho stated, been a marked decrease in tho number of Police Court convictions, and lie had it from prominent business men resident in such places that tho volume of business had increased, and that they had no desire to see "Continuance" again in operation. They knew the evils which resulted from the liquor traffic, and ho considered that, under Prohibition, the amount of liquor consumed had dropped about 60 per cent. This was a splendid illustration of what Prohibition could effect. It had been asserted that Masterton was not prospering under No-License, but he had it (on absolutely reliable authority) that property to tho amount of ,£RS,'OOO had been sold there during the month of October. In that town, also, the deposits in the Savings Bank had increased, but, in spite of these evidences of prosperity, it had been asserted that No-License was a failure. In conclusion he urged the necessity of assisting such a cause. Each ono should do his best, for their opponents were strong, and, when he went back to New South Wales he would tell them there that, while in New Zealand, he had never heard a single solid argument against "No-License."