NEW NO-LICENSE DISTRICTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8146, 2 July 1906, Page 2

NEW NO-LICENSE DISTRICTS.

ly . !h CHANGE EFFECTED QUIETLY i 0 IN OAMARU. )f ___ " PEB PHESB ASSOCIATION. '" Oahabu, June 80. ,e Tlie change from License to No. ' s License was quietly effected hero on 11 Saturday nigkt. Two hotels olosed 16 their doors at six o'clobk, but the rest 0 remained open till eleven. So far only '■ one property has changed hands. In y three other casos the houses have been n leased to new tenants as boarding- '" houses, and in the other seven, the S previous licensees carry on as in the L past for a while. Two hotel bars in Thames street have been let as shops. INVERCARGILL ANGBY WITH ITSELF. IRVBECABOIIL, July 1. [ Invercargill canio under No-Licensa at 10 p.m. last night. One hotel i closed at 9 o'clock. There were some some noisy demonstrations, ohoering, 1 and the singing of Auld Lsng Syne, j etc., and many people were on the streets out of curiosity, although the . night was bitterly cold. Several of . the hotels will bo turned to other uses, ; and the newspapora are full of furniture sales, so that accommodation for visitors will be considerably curtailed. Meantime, the opinion is pungently expressed that if a vote could be taken now, the majority of ten, by which licenses were abolished, would be reversed. Invercargill has had half a century of licensed traffic in liquor and its peoplo are, and havo been, law. ibiding and peaceable. It. is now stated on good authority that there are many sly-grog shops springing up. The local browcrs have orccted stores on the confines of the electorate from which to supply householders and _ othors.