UNLICENSED INVERCARGILL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 187, 29 July 1908, Page 2

UNLICENSED INVERCARGILL

IS IX SOBER Olt OTHERWISE? PROTEST AGAINST ,>IR. HART »ms views.

By Telegraph.—Press Association. Invercavgill, Last N'igiit. The assertions of Mr. Hartuett, malinger of the British football team, were considered at a meeting of the luvcrcnrgill Ministers' Association. The following resolution was carried:—"This Association of Invercargill ministers places on record its protest against the gross misrepresentation and wild statements alleged to have been made by Mr llartnett in an interview in Auckland! on Saturday last, in which he deprecates the inferior accommodation of hotels, extensive drinking in private houses, appalling drunkenness in the yireets, fraud and deceit of the inhabitants, and the complete failure of no-? license reform. These charges are completely answered in a manifesto published over the signatures of the Mayor and a hundred leading citizens of invercai'gill, many of whom are not identified with the no-license movement, but who have given their emphatic testimony to the splendid results accruing from the introduction of the reform. This Association expresses regret that Mr. Hartuett should have adopted the courageous (?) method of besmirching the name of our town and attacking private inhabitants and the character of our citizens oil the eve of his departure from the. Dominion, thereby precluding an outraged community from asking that lie substantiate his charges, and, failing to prove them, demanding in the interests of justice, truth and! honor, their withdrawal."