MASTERS UNDER NO-LICENSE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10469, 6 November 1911, Page 5

MASTERS UNDER NO-LICENSE

A FEILOINC CHALLENGE.

la his address aft Feilding on Friday n/ighft;~t)hie Rev. R. B. S. Haimmiond jielfenred to a, ML page adveav tisemeait wQiicb appeared! in a Wellington paper giving a number of .pictures! of Masrtierton business premises wMdh are represented as being empty as the result of Nfo-iEc-enjsß. Mr •Haimanoad said he had rbeen in, Maisterton that m/oaining,and he had investigated the .mattar. He found that in one case the pwmises had never been- dkused at all, in another there wtere two pictures of one building, taken from different positioms to make them ap.peair diko two buildings. In another case .the photograph of the place was •apparently taken wihriile the .shiutters wove up. on account of itthe death of the propriGtoT. 'The whole adverti'seojshit wiaa so misleading amid f a3se •that, forgetting he was. a parson, he wftulid say tine best way to reply to it was .to print across it, "The Liquor Party are damned l&ars!" Mr H. MoManaway, who was in the audience, aifteirwairds said at the meeting thlat hie had sent the matter for the ad.venti'aemieait, and "hie would give £25 to the Hospital if what ho hiad sent wlas found to be untrue. Ho had mot seen the paper. Mr Hammond retorted that if the paper had published something he had not-sent hie htopedi Mr McMamaway would prosecute the paper foir libel. ' As far as tine facts were concerned, howould' nominate the Mayor of Fedlding—(whom, he did not know—and Mr McMamarmay could" "nominate a mam, and fefc the two investigate. Mr McMamaway (nominated the Rev. G. Buddl. Arrangements were Mt in tiH'e Minds of theso gentlemen.