THE LICENSING QUESTION.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43381, 3 October 1908, Page 3

THE LICENSING QUESTION.

To the Editor. Sib, —l am in hearty agreement with the fine contribution in your paper last Saturday on “Anonymous Correspondence.” I rarelynotice letters of this kind, but Anti-Humbug cites Mr Harnett, Manager of the English Football team as giving an unbiassed and fair account of things in Invercargill. Has this • anonymous correspondent read the reference to Mr Harnett’s charges in the House of Representatives? If he will turn up his Hansard he will find that during the “ barer majority ” discussion, the member for Invercargill and several others gave a flat contradiction to this maligners statements, and also that attention was called to tin disgraceful state of things on Auckland Wharf when the team was leaving, when two or three of the members were so incapable that they fell 'into the Harbour, and Mr Harnett himself so “biassed” towards the flooring of the wharf that he had to be supported while making his farewell speech. Pray, Anti-Humbug, do not mention this man’s name again as an authority on No-License in Invercargill. Like a big booby he went bellowing all over the Dominion because he could’nt get his “beer” in a No-License electorate—by the way— a splendid testimony that prohibition does prohibit. Had Mr Harnett and his team been NoLicense men they would not have been I so ignominiously beaten.—l am, etc., I John Dukes, f