BALCLUTHA AGAIN.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 26 November 1901, Page 4

BALCLUTHA AGAIN.

(To the Editor,)

SiE.—ln your issue of Saturday a short paragraph appears re the inability of the Balclutha Borough Council to pay one of its servants, though he has only seven shillings a,day. I don’t suppose you have verified what is affirmed, but it is needful to do so when one remembers the misrepresentations published before the last general elcciion of the ruin prohibition had wrought in that electorate misrepresentations which drew from the Town clerk (who is not a prohibitionist) the most emphatic contradiction. I arn writing that gentleman as to the truth of the paragraph, and when I receive a reply you will again hear from me.

Meanwhile I shall feel obliged if you will find zoom for the following paragraph extracted from the Midland Methodist Tennessee. U.S.—“ It has been said by the liquor dealer that prosperity can only be assured to a community by the sale of strong drink. This has been proved to the contrary in many small towns of Tennessee and elsewhere. We have an example on a large scam in the north of Europe of prosperity and no associate liquor trade. Finland has a population of 2,380,000. The climate is miserably coldjand about three-fourths of the land is scraggy and sterile, but the Russian Government have made the Finns an active, thrifty people by prohibiting the sale of liquor. They have 174 saving banks, an adznirable school system and only a few people cannot read and write. Helsingfors has a population of 85,000 and is scrupulously clean, having no of wretchedness and squalor." As a word to the wise is enough, -I am Ac., J. M.