LIQUOR IN BELLAMY'S.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2504, 3 July 1915, Page 3

LIQUOR IN BELLAMY'S.

'Sir, —Members of Parliament must bo sympathised with iri the matter of liquor in Bellamy's.. The subject matter of the petition of a few women: is on all four's with a motioii\by. a Mr. T. a \Ving (member for Houghton-le-Spring) that during the war no alcoholic liquors bo sold at the bars of the House of Commons. Tlio House of Commons defeated this motion on ii resolution of adjournment. It was Mr. Bonar Law's argument Mr. Wing's - proposal that seemed most convincing. ■ The Leader of the Opposition said: \"We shall.submit ourselves .to precisely. the same restrictions which. we think it wise by legislation to impose upon other people, and we make no pretence of doing anything more." The King's action is quite a personal matter, and one that individuals may follow' or not as they, please; but the.King is nofi attempting to enforce his habit during the war upon others. ( j\U are left free to judge for themselves. The Churdh is not supporting tho. King. The Dean of ; Manchester at the Convocation of, York (April 28,_ 1915) spoke against organised, prohibition. At the Convocation of Canterbury (April 15, 1915) . the Deanof Canterbury expressed his inability to pledge himself to: total "It is; not a question ■of self-sacrifice but of health,", the Dean added. "I know that, many- times • I have tried to be a total , abstainer'on the humble ground of economy, and the only effect ii tha.t in three weeks I am out of' action altogether. I do not see that I should.be doing any good.to my country by putting myself, in. that condition.'' ' What Now Zealand legislators, and indeed, all the people want to insist upon ill their, own.individual-lives h strict temperance, and this can be undertaken without the abolition of the meaiis-to strict temperance. '' Speakingin the House of.Commons, Mr. H. J. Tennant, ■ Tinder-Secretary .. for - War, said: "All intoxicants .sent to the front were exclusively for the wounded, except rum." General Maxwell, the officer commanding in Egypt, has established wet 'canteens which aro open, from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m; for the sale of alcohol to soldiers.; Thus. the. House of Commons, tho Church, and: the Aniiy. are giving examples of'moderation for the New Zealand Parliament to- follow. —1 am, etc., ■ ■ - " ', TEMPERANCE,-