EARLY CLOSING.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 September 1917, Page 1

EARLY CLOSING.

A PROTEST. [l'Klt I'JtEHS ASSOCIATION. —COFYRIOHT.J AI'C'KI.AXF), Sept. 17. A crowded meeting in the lown Hull at ten <led h.v over .1000 people carried a resolution expressing strong protest against tiie Oovemnient’s attempt to thwart the will of the people by proposing t« close,the. hotels at eight o’clock, when the known and expressed will oi the electors is that the bars should be closed at six o’clock during, and until six months alter, the war. The meeting also carried a motion emphatically urging the Government, in the event of its refusal to provide for six o’clock closing, to forthwith introduce legislation to enable the usual triennial poll of the people due tins year upon the prohibition issue to he taken in the terms ot the recommendation of the Efficiency Hoard. A motion on bohali ol Labour. that the elections should lie held at the end !,(■ (he present year was disallowed oil the voices. DEMAND FOll SIX O'CLOCK. INVERCARGILL, Sept. 17. The Invercargill Reform Council, representing the largest electorate in the Dominion under no license resolved that because of the experience of partial prohibition during the past tuohe years, it earnestly urges Parliament to vote for six o’clock closing. The council recognises that tin's is only a partial remedy for the crying evils of flic drink traffic hut the only remedy at present available, and entitled to the support of all •statesmen who have the true mteresffi of the Dominion at heart. ,