INTEMPERANCE AMONGST WOMEN
On recent dafryat the Westminster Palace Hotel, at :i o<M.fVren<-.- of ,he Women's Uuioi: <>f tlie ( In; oh of Eug'iimt Temperance ( . v ocmt\, Mrs Ellis Cameron, Airs Ainipisnn, .V ;-s Wilson and, other in 'ties ■• • Lvi! d numerous cases of ruins, aiadi.e>s, and death arising from the fnct that women of: the upper and middle cluss hare great facilities at gr .errs, fruiterers, confectioners, ami the stores, for' obtaining' wine^ and spiri.b, wLujh they can in so many iu-t;:nco> drink on the premises, 'ihese ladie? urged the abolition of procers' and !*li"i>keepers*.licenses tor sale of wi.u<»s and 'spirts. Canon Ellison sui ■ rh.it I here hiid of late years 'been au appalling- increase of feuiaie inten: era;..tii, owing to she facilities afforded by grocers license. He believed that the public were totally unprepared for the immense amount of «i-:dence against the grocers' and shopkeepers' licenses which' the sod.-ty wnu.i. be able to bring 'forward, mid the rime he hoped, was not far distant when the House of Commons would retrace its steps and abolish the licences. — l.schan»e.
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Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 80, 17 March 1883, Page 3
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179INTEMPERANCE AMONGST WOMEN Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 80, 17 March 1883, Page 3
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