PROHIBITION CAMPAIGN

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 287, 23 August 1918, Page 8

PROHIBITION CAMPAIGN

* MEETING AT KHANDALLAH. At a public meeting lipid at Khandnllah Town Hall on Wednesday, tho prouosal* of the National Efficiency Board were discur-cd. and it was unanimously decided lo .-support tho petition to Parliament for a poll to bo talcon this year. Jlv. .1. 11. Dale, Mayor of Onslow, presided An interesting address was given by Mis: T'arkcs. from liondon, who stated j-hnt she had combined wjth other English women to help her country. Tho speaker commented on (he cvilsof exces*ivf! drinking, and alluded to its disastrous results in England and elsewhere. New Zealand, she said, could not afford to disregard the National. Efficiency Board's recommendations, as the good of Hie nation demanded it. The Eev. John Dawson said the last four years had been years of testing for men and things, for habits and customs, but especially for tho liquor traffic. Tho war had shown that socially, morally, and financially a country is better oil' without the linuor traffic. Many countries had nccordiTigly curtailed.or abolished it. Canada by next year would bo free of it from I he" Pacific-to tho Atlantic, and the Tinited States of America were more than half under Prohibition bv the popular vote. The Efficiency Board pronosed reasonable- compensation to the traffic. lie personally was deadly opposed to this. Tf any compensation were payable it should be to the victims of the traffic, to tho drunkard's wife. Bad as it was to pay money to closo the hotels, it was ten time 3 worse allow them to remain open. At any price in money it -was a 60und investment to secure a land clean, free, and safe. (Applause.) The meeting closed with the singing oF the National Anthem, and a strong committee was fhen formed to obtain signatures lo the petition to Parliament.