MR. T.E TAYLOR ON THE WEST COAST.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 91, 19 April 1911, Page 2

MR. T .E TAYLOR ON THE WEST COAST.

[BY TELEGRAPH — KRESS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHURCH, 18th April. At Runanga Mr. T. E. Taylor had [ what he described as the most uncommon meeting in the whole of his experience. It was held on a Saturday night. There was a large audience, nearly all men, mostly miners. - •• -At tne conclusion of his address Mr. R % Semple, organiser of the New Zealand Miners' .Federation, spoke in suppoct of the same motion as had been carried at R&efton, which tirg'sd the meeting to do all in. its power to carry National Pro^ hibition tins year. He said that hitherto he had not supported the Prohibition Party, but he was satisfied that the complete prohibition ,of the liquor traffic for a number of years would result in % very large number of people bringing a keener and soberer judgment to bear upon every political and social reform, and he intended this year to vofe for the principle. Besides that, he would urge all the workers' of New Zealand to do the same thing. He thought that the Dominion should try to ascertain what social, political, and physical results would follow the complete destruction of the drinking customs for at least five years and a. half, the term which the law prescribed for National Prohibition" if it were carried; He also announced his intention to publicly advocate that course tit he workers of the Dominion. Mr. Webb, president of the Miners' Federation, announced that he intended to follow the same course. The motion was carried unanimously, and Mr. Taylor did not think that 25 people in the hall abetained from voting. The Greymouth meeting, • which was held on the night of his arrival on the Coast, Mr. Taylor said, might be much more correctly* described as "fierce" taian the Reef ton meeting. Ifc began at 9.15 p.m., on account of the late arrival of the train.' It was one continuous fight from the time of starting until ik ended at 11 o'clock. No motion was submitted to that meeting, but on Sunday night,, at another meeting in the same town, the motion submitted in the other cent-res was carried.