NO-LICENSE IN THE SOUTH

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 177, 19 August 1909, Page 2

NO-LICENSE IN THE SOUTH

CONDITIONS VIGOROUSLY DEPENDED. By lelegtaph.— Press Association. . Wellington, Last Night. A Tew months Imclc, Mr. Hanking, a Queensland Magistrate, visited New Zealand on a luur u l' investigation into he results of no-iieen.e in parts of this (Ouuti.i. On iHuniing to llrisoane, Air. Hanking gave expression to remark* of a character not altogether favorable to the condition of things under the "dry" regime, especially, j n the South. These adverse entiehinis have brought forth fcvyorn declarations from William Beninnun hcandrett, of Invereargill, as f'ol-lovvs:—-'That 1 Was Mayor of the borough of Invereargill in the year in vvh'cli no-license was carried there, and continued an Mayor for almost three years

.•ifterwardsj that in the year followinp the carrvjiiar of lici-lieense in Invevcar Kill, the capital value of property in tlu borough imrea, S ed In- tM3!1,f1()4. Aillioiirrl I loc"-o fc*i>s liiiil boi'ii lost to the revenue l ln- rates levied by the Council were re dnced bv 3-I.lt]n of a penny in th< iionml. and 110 V have not been raisec >iiicc. Since tlip carrying of no-liceuse ir I juvervargill, tyt ivard signs <if energetii I business life lire mure apparent; mam shopkeepers liivt extended their buii nenses and lnrt;; verandahs have beei erected ,along Mu> business front in thi main thoroiiOT ire. In pursuance 01 instructions frM the Municipal Councl at Tavercargil ,the borough inspectO;' on 7th SeptenJjer, l!f08 (two veal's am two months' :,fter the liars had lieei closed) reported! as follows: 'I am full; aware -,)f the ,fa< t that slanderous stale incuts have bden circulated in respect ti ) the present cc«n( ition of the hotels am hoarding houses, ns"agninst the time o license, but ftftir careful hivestigatioi of all the fajeti for and against' tin changed conditions, 1 am firmly of ooiuiP(\ that the lintel* and boarding houses at the present time are a* good and ill some cases bette r tb«in under the former circumstances."