NO-LICENSE AND TRADE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 84, 22 November 1911, Page 5

NO-LICENSE AND TRADE.

HOT CONTROVERSY AT MASTERTON. BOROUGH COUNCIL MOTION. (Per Press Association.) Mastorton, November 21. At a public meeting addressed in 'die Mastorton Town Hall to-night by [lev. R. S. Gray, of Christchurch, a resolution, alleged to have been passed by business men to the effect that Vo-licenso in Mastorton had been _ a failure was traversed by the chairman and Rev. Gray. The names of persons responsible for the resolution were read from tho platform, and it was assorted that five out of eight ignatories to the document containing the resolution were those of perjons interested financially and othervise in the trade. At a meeting of the Mastorton Bor)ugh Council to-night tho following "csolution was carried nem con: ‘That this Council emphatically protests against the unfair and malicimis attempts made by a section of the public, vide an ‘Evening Post’ advertisement under date November 2nd, to damage the credit of our town, such statements being contrary to fact; and, further, we are satisfied tho business people recognise that, inancially and commercially, Masterton never held a firmer position.”