ENGLISH LICENSING BILL.
A BI } DEMONSTRATION
Received July 'll, 9.14 a.m. LONDON, July 26. A demonstration, taken part in by a crowd numbering one hundred thousand persons, with one hundred bands and scores of banners, was held in Hyde Park, in support of the Licensing Bill. The Right Hon. Winston Churchill, President of the Board of Trade, claimed that the demonstration proved that the Bill was supported by the great masses of the people. There were 120 speakers upon the platforms. They included Sir Thomas Whittaker (Liberal M.P. for. Spen Valley Division of York, and an active temperance reformer), Mr Will Crooks (Labour M.P. for Woolwich), Mr Arthur Henderson (Labour M.P. for Barnard Castle Division of Durham and chairman of the Labour Party), and Dr Clifford (the wellknown Nonconformist divine).
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9153, 28 July 1908, Page 5
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130ENGLISH LICENSING BILL. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9153, 28 July 1908, Page 5
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