NO-LICENSE MEETING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 135, 29 November 1911, Page 5

NO-LICENSE MEETING.

SPEAKERS BADLY HECKLED. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. Pandemonium reigned at the Town Hall when, in connection with the nolicense campaign, a demonstration was held by Victoria College students for the Prohibition League. Five speakers, graduates of the university, who were advertised to deal with the different aspects of the topic, were given a particularly wann time by a. band of young men, apparently students of the university, situated at the rear of the hall. At times the confusion was, indescribable. There was a very large attendance of the public, numbering about 3(100 persons. The continued heckling and the volume of mixed noises, against which it was impossible to make the human voice heard, bad to !be contended with by the different speakers, and it was mot until the aid of the police was invoked by the chairman that even comparative quiet was secured, tat icvcn then loud himiMapping almost completely drowned the voice of the last speaker.. A resolution in favor of striking out the top lines was carried amidst cheers. It is doubtful, however, whether anyone in the hall, except those in the very front seats, heard anything of the resolution when it was moved by the last speaker.