WELLINGTON.
PUBLICMFETING BE LOCAL' OPTION BILL/ , August 2. A numerously-attended public meeting was held here last evening, to discuss the principles of Mr. Fox's Local Option Bill. The following resolutions were carried: " Tiiat in the opinion of this meeting a very large proportion of the vice, crime, disease, poverty, and other social evils which exist in the Colony are the direct results of the traffic in, and the using of, alcoholic beverages." "That no system of Licensing Laws have yet been effectual for the prevention of those evils, to prevent which they were enacted, and that therefore a change is necessary, both in the princ : ple and method of the laws dealing with the liquor trade." "That the principle embodied in the Local Option Dill ia equitable, practicable, and likely to afford the public relief from man) T of the evils arising from the consumption of intoxicating liquors."
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Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 394, 2 August 1877, Page 2
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148WELLINGTON. Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 394, 2 August 1877, Page 2
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