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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1287, 16 November 1911, Page 8

ALCOHOL A FOOD? TTNIMSB iho heading "Labour and }J Liquor, thn Liquor Trade nub lislicd as an advertisement, in Monday'* Lvoning Post," a most antiquated nnd .misleading criticism of Piy.iessur Mills's Address on tliii subject, which concludes w-n . IDSUII ™S remark that Profoxw -lliJs docs not understand the Honor question. They f,coff at his statement that ALCOHOL IS NOT A FOOD The, Government of this country hns its centlv pu>>li-h«l under its authority tornprimes iv.ill-shccts to be hung in' every State rV.liMl, and Hie first statement on the first of these is: "Drink, such ns boor, wine, and spirits, .are not foods a« milk is—l'boy do not help to mako the body grow, they do not help to keen the body from wr-anns; away, and (.hey cannot moron™ the total amoimt of bodily strength and warmth." Noali didn't know that; Paul didn't Know that'; a great many other generations of men didn't kmnv that, but nn doni, up-to-date- scientific knowledge has made us tho first genera lion nrivilogH tc know the truth. We will insult our ow„ mtoiligc-nco if wo do not banish alcoholic beverages once and for ever from Now Zealand, by striking nut tiho top line on both ballot papei-s.-Advt.

...m 10 £"'• 9 hnr 5 B """wk, author of Iho Queens lioso vo," "The VVa» Home, and many other l>wks, „ n ,| ~i' editor of a number of magazines, died at Kistbournc recently ut Iho ago at eighty-two, h