Next Licensing Poll.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 281, 1 December 1904, Page 2

Next Licensing Poll.

MR T. E. TAYLOR'S ANTICIPATIONS,

CHRI9TCHURCH, Nov. 28. Speaking at a social gathering of tho Prohibition League, Mr T. El Taylor, M.H.R., indulged in some anticipations as. to the result oI the next licensing poll. He sold ABKbur. ton ami Mataura ftad accumulated ovidence in favour of no-license, and they wore certain to sweep a nutcfcer of adjacent electorates Into the movo. luent. He (fuott-d the remarks made by ttw Rev. 11. Purchas at the Anglican Synod. in favour of tho effect of prohibition at Mount Somen, in tta Ashburton district. Mr Purchas, who W ®J never led away by excitement, and whoso remarks carried much weight, had stated that Mount Son*, er® Iwd been turned froni a drunken noisy town to a place where perfect order prevailed. Men who had been confirmed drunkards had bacotna M>her, and boys no longer toll into drunken hafbits. Mr Taylor od Ms wilMngness to prophesy that at tiw next licensing poll Ashburton would sweep m with it both Court*, nay and Selwyn. The tho next licensing elecUoaW? hf finitely brighter uUa Temperance workers couia look fcSl' ward to the mo* £«££ mg poll the colony