N.Z. TELEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9052, 30 March 1908, Page 5

N.Z. TELEGRAMS.

| BY TELEGRAPH —FKESS ASSOCIATION . A RECORD "HOSPITAL Saturday." INVERCARGILL, March 29. The results of yesterday's hospital Saturday collections are said to constitute a record for the dominion. The total (incomplete so far) is £1,030 10s Bd, of which the town collections totalled £455, and the outlying districts £534 17s 3d.

NO-LICENSE IN INVERCARGILL,

INVERCARGILL, March 29. The Mayor and 100 leading business and professional men have signed a statement drawn up by the Mayor with regard to the results of no-license here. The statement declares:— (1) That no-license has no detrimental influence on the value of property; (2) that public order in the streets has greatly improved, persona under influence of drink being seldom seen. (3) That in the best interests of the growing youth they would hot like to see licenses restored ; (4) that the reform can be recommended to other places for trial. This statement is made by the Mayor in reply to anonymous assertions regarding the above points made in various newspapers in the dominion. The signatories who support the Mayor include well-known medical men and solicitors, the leading evangelical ministers, most of the wholesale merchants, all the newspaper proprietors, many .educational authorities and representative list of every branch of civil and commercial life.