THE LICENSING QUESTION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 138, 6 December 1911, Page 5

THE LICENSING QUESTION.

MEETING- AT WAIHI. By Telegraph—'Press Association. Waihi, Tuesday. A meeting of supporters of the local restoration movement, held last night, was also attended by a number of nolicense advocates, the building being packed. The meeting was addressed by Mr. Moresby, solicitor, organiser of the restoration league. At the close of the meeting a resolution in favor of nolicense, moved by a no-license leader, was lost. At this stage the no-license portion retired, and the following resolution was then put and carried: "That this meeting endorses the Mayor's statement that Waihi has receivied neither moral nor material benefit under nolicense; also that it believes the effect of no-license has been pernicious to the welfare of the district and tends to lower the morals of the district by the encouragement of deceit and lying." Mr. Gordon, no-license agent, attempted several times to address street audiences after the meeting had closed. He ; was hustled off his stand several times, J but eventually got a hearing, , SACRAMENTAL WINES. Wellington, Tuesday. Interviewed by an Evening Post reporter on the subject of the Rev. Mr. Hammond's telegram, His Grace Archbishop Redwood said:—"Mr. Hammond's telegram to me is in direct contradiction to the account of the interview which he had with the editor of the Tablet, which account the said editor declares to be scrupulously accurate. Further, I say that Catholics have a natural and divine right to the unfettered possession of the necessary matter of the great Catholic eucharistic sacrifice, therefore it would be an insult to their reason and their faith to accept it on the precarious tenure of pie crust political promise*, or of a clause in an Act of Parliament, which might .be, and certainly would be, repealed if prohibition came to prevail in the Dominion." Dunedin, Last Night. The following telegram was despatched from Dunedin this morning to Archbishop Redwood, Wellington: "We most respectfußy reiterate that in an interview accorded with the editor of the Tablet we made it emphatically clear that nothing had been said or intended to warrant even the faintest suspicion that we, who were responsible for the exemption clause as regards sacramental wine, ever purposed or would consent to annul it.—(Signed) R. B. S. Hammond and G. B, Nicholls." NO-LICENSE MEE'fING AT AUCKLAND. ; Auckland, Tuesday. A no-license meeting at St. Benedict'* Hall last night was presided.,, over by the Hon. Mr. Fowlds. Five speakers, advertised as university students, spoke, and were-subjected to considerable interruption and considerable disorder. A resolution proposed by one of the audience on behalf of university students, protesting against the speakers being advertised as representing the university was handed to the chairman, who declined to receive it. A section of the audience expressed indignation, and, amid yelling and hooting, the mftver of the resolution was led out of '{he hall by a constable, his friends singing "For he's a jolly good, fellow," and jeering at the chairman. The meeting continued rowdy, and before the close no less than six persons were ejected ,]m the poliee im causing a disturbance. I