NO-LICENSE IN MASTERTON.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 136, 4 December 1911, Page 5

NO-LICENSE IN MASTERTON.

PHOTOGRAPHS OF BOTTLES. (By Telegraph—Special to News.) Palmerston N., Last Night. Mr. McManawaiy, of Hastie's' Hotel, Feilding, whose challenge of £25 to the Rev. Mr. Hammond that he could not prove the author of the Masterton photographs to be damnable liars, published in the Manawatu Times a statement that he was not in any way consulted as to the appointment of Mr. Trewin, of Feilding, solicitor, as one of the arbitrators in the matter, and specifically refused to consent to his appointment. Mr. MeManaway states, that Mr. Trewin and Mr. Mclntyre, the other commissioners, are strong no-license advocates, but he himself hadi been willing to nominate the Rev. Mr. Budd, also a no-license man, to represent him. As he rejected Mr. Frewin, he refused to accept the result of his inquiry, and published in the Manawatu Times correspondence from Mr. Wilton, photographer, of Marton, giving details of the photogiaphs'. Mr. Ridgwaj - , bottle merchant, testified to all bottles shown being collected under no-license, and stated' that many thousand of dozens of others are. also collected there by the bottle merchants, and also quotes from the Wairarapa Age to the effect that the statements and pictures were correct. He has protested to the manager of the Press Association against the message sent from Feilding stating that Mr. Hammond had won.