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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1614, 29 November 1905, Page 3

NOTICE OF NOMINATIONS. In purauftnoo of "Tho Electoral'Aot, 1905," I, George John Alexander Johnstone, Returning Officer for the Elootoral District of Waiapu, do horoby give notice that the persons whose names appear hereunder have been nominated as candidates for tho Eleotion of a Member of the’ House of Representatives of Row Zealand or tho Electoral District of Waiapu, viz.:— JAMES CARROLL WILLIAM LISSANT CLAYTON GEORGE EDWARD DARTON HENRY HOYLE WALL •

And the Foil wlll .be taken at the follow!: Polling places on WEDNESDAY, the SIXI DAY of DECEMBER 1905 . His Majesty's Theatre (principal) Native Land Court Theatre Royal Mangapapa School-house Matawhero Sohool-house - Waereriga ai<hika Sohool-houso. Ormond Sohool-house ' To Karaka School-houso Whatntutu Hall Wheturau Post Offioo Maogalu Post Offico * Huanui Woalshed \ • Waihnka Woolshod Whalrarau School-house Rakauroa Sohool-house Rakauroa, Korte’s homestead Motu Sohoolhouse Waimata Hall Patutahi Sohbolhonse Wharekopae Woolshed Wharekopao, Williams’ homestead i Tahunga Steele’s homestead Waerenga o-kuri Sohoolhouse Te Aroha Sohoolhouse Hangaroa, J. Burgess’s Woolshod , Tiniroto Sohoolhouse Te Arai Bohoolhouse Waingakc Sohoolhouse Paparatu homestead ’ 1 Maraetaha Sohool house Wharerata Post Offioe Whangara Sohoolhouse Wigan Sohoolhouso Tuarua Woolshod Tolago Bay, Sohoolhouso Mahgatokerau homestead Waipare, F. J. Williams’ offiao Tokomaru Sohoolhouse Bsxbaven, Mills’ homestead Waipiro Sohoolhouso Ihungia homestead Tuparoa Sohoolhouse . Awonui, Magistrate’s Courthouse Te Araroa Sohoolhouse Dated this 28th day of November, 1905' G. J A JOHNSTONE, Returning Offioer.

TURANQANUt BOWLING CLUB. THE Opening of the Turangauui Bowling Green takes plaoe on THURSDAY Afternoon, at 3 o’olook, when all bowlers and friends are cordially inyited ' P..HALLAM, Hon, Sea.

JUVENILE DRUNKENNESS. , 5 J EA—--H . j ', , WHAT THE MAT AURA ENSIGN SAYS Gore, Tuesday, August 22, 1005. ; A T the risk o£ having our motives misinterpreted, and being ourselves denounced as endeavoring to torment an agitation in favor of the liquor party, we deem it a duty owing to society at large, thuugh possibly having more particular application to the local community, that something should be done to expose the distressing extent to which juvenile drinking and juvenile drunkenness are now rampant in our midst. Home months ago the moral sense of the public was considerably shooked by a return forwarded to the Xremnr by mr Wesley Spragg, a well-known Auokland temperance reformer, containing the result of , 'observations directed upon the diri eking habits of the youDg men of that oity. ihose who have any regard for the future of our colony must have learned with feelings of unmixed sorrow that youths of seveutesn and' eighteen had been seen visiting hotel ba.S, many of them being under, the influence of liquor. But what shall be said of the -conuition of matters such in Gore under which boys of from twelve to fifteen become intoxicated? It is difficult to approach a problem like this dispassionately, seeing the tremendous issues there-are at stake; and while we address ourselves to the task, lully conscious of the gravity of the eviHo. be expose4i the feeling is a strong one that for the credit of the distriot much or all should be left unsaid. We are persuaded that it is the prevalence of this same reluctance to uncover ‘AN UNSIGHTLY BLOT that has kept the subject beneath the surface of general discussion for so long. However, the ugly fact must bs faoed that boys in Gore are being ensaared by the liquor habit. That this will oe seized upon with avidity by opponents of no-license as evidencing the failure of reform goes without saying. But, on the face of it, juvenile drinking is not a natural corollary of no4ieenae. It is due first of all to the perverseness of human nature—the inexplicable sentiment which forms the basis for the ineontrovertiole truism that stolen fruits are sweetest. Farther than that, advocates of.no-lieense in compassing the abolition of one particular system, with‘its elaborate ramifications of restrictive' legislation, have failed to recognise that the most com* plex system of all, human nature, has not been sensibly ohanged, The closing of the open bar does not entail the extinguishing of the.appetite for liquor. The drinking habits of the people (though admittedly consider ably diminished), indulged in reoognieea centres under police and public sup© r " vision, are now pra o{is 0 {i se d promiscuously, and the absence 0 £ oversight is

THE GREATEST MENACE they have to offer. Therefore, if there wsb need for vigilance before oh the part of those who had the moral and physical welfare of their fellows at heart, that need has since gained tenfold in intensity. Failure to recognise this fact, rather than any shortcomings of no.license as a system, has been responsible for 'the evil to which we have essayed to direct thoughtful attention. It is indeed terrible to think that even a few youths on the golden threshold leading from boyhood to man’s estate are being marred by the habit of drunkenness, and if such were the inevitable saorifice to be made for the purpose merely of saving a few topers from the. consequences of their lifelong folly, we should unhesitatingly proclaim in favor of a return to the open. liquor bar. But more than a jfew boys arc concerned. There is every reason to believe that the

MISCHIEF IS WIDESPREAD, and, as from the foroeof oiraamstanaes it is driven underground,' the diffioulty of ooping effectively wiih }t is vastly increased. It is not confined to a class that is morally depraved or naturally perverse. Parents in all ranks of society, whose children have received the most careful training, have had cause for grief in this matter, and there are maoy, doubtless, for whom the shock of rude awakening to the prao,sicas of their, sons is still. reserved One of the most fruitful. sources of this crying evil is the ease with which liquor may be imported into no-license districts, and the apparent lack of discrimination as to the persons supplied. Admitting that possibly the drink that fo:ms the groundwork for these ' V ' . JUVENILE ORGIES (many of which have become notorions) may not amount to much in point of quantity, it is the fact that it comes into the possession of hoys at all tbat needs' explanation. It is possible to oope with this hideous traffic,* however. • In the first place, parents Bhould exorcise the fullest possible control over their families and maintain the utmost Vigilance in regard to their habits and companionships. The efforts of (the. police should be direoted specially to the prevention 'and detection of JUVENILE DRINKING , and the public at large should make it a MATTER OF DUTY and honor.to encourage the Btriotest fulfilment of the law. Unless action is taken along these lines, the fruit 3 of the temperance reforms of to-day will turn to ashes in the degradation of the manhood of to-morrow. To save the boys is the whole object of what has already been accomplished. Around us the field is white unto harvest. The laborers ale many and willing, it is true,'but they oannot have realised the nature of the task that is lying to their hands. . .

' A CARD. ’ tames" mckinley *'■ ARCHITECT, LOWE. STREET, • Opposite Publio Library, Gisborne.