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started. Won by three lengths. Time 2min B^sec. LIVERPOOL AUTUMN CUP. United Piiess Association. Copyright LONDON, November G. The Liverpool Autumn Cup resulted : —Santevo 1, Crathorne 2, Lise'hana 3. W °- Tj ICENS E REGULAR MEETING in St. Andrew’s Schoolroom,THlS (Monday) EVENING, at 7.30. FINAL MEETING of League before Election. WONDERFUL' EFFECTS OF NO-LICENSE IN INVERCARGILL. rglilE LIQUOR PARTY MADE A GREAT POINT OF THE FACT THAT THE GOVERNMENT RETURN SHOWED THAT 123,952 GALLONS OF BEER AND SPIRITS WERE CONSUMED IN INVERCARGILL. ANALYSE THE FIGURES AND SEE WHAT THEY PROVE. First Remember that this covers Two Years, so that it is equivalent to 61,976 Gallons a year. This on the basis of Invercargill's population is equal to gallons per head pbr annum. THE AVERAGE CONSUMPTION FOR THE WHOLE DOMINION IS ini GALLONS PER HEAD PER J - u 3 ANNUM. In addition to the above, Invercargill figures must be added, an amount not included in the Parliamentary return, supplied f rom fiber depots erected just over the border by the Trade to defeat the effects-of Nolicense, in spite of these drawbacks, the LARGE DECREASE IN DRUNKENNESS and the DECREASE in the amount of CUSTOMS DUTIES FROM LIQUOR SHOWS DECREASED DRINKING, a fact still further borne witness to by the figures below:—• CHARITABLE AID, Which is caused largely through Drink has shown a CONSIDERABLE DROP SINCE NO-LICENSE CAMU INTO FORCE. The LAST YEAR of LICENSE there were li3 CASES - The FIRST YEAR of NO-LICENSE there were Q'J CASES. The Number of Cases treated for ALCOHOLIC POISONING in Invercargill for TWO YEARS BEFORE NO-LICENSE were *?7 The Number of Similar Cases for the TWO YEARS AFTER were and most of those 10 were front outside Invercargill. NO-LICENSE LEAGUE, F. W. Chatterton, President.