NO-LICENSE CONDEMNED

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1616, 1 December 1905, Page 2

NO-LICENSE CONDEMNED

' LECTURE BY'WELL-KNOWN ,PRIEST., TELEGRAM FROM ASHBURTON. '(Fer- Press- Association.;) • - Blenheim, last night'. Much public interest was taken: in a .-lecture-,- delivered here last night by the Rev,-. Father Bervajean on prohibition. The hall was crowded, and the speaker got an excellent hearing. ' The leoturer says that his address was prompted by a litter he bad received from the New Zealand Alliance, asking:him'to preach a speoial temperance sermon in yie'w' of the ooming elections'. He resented the letter as an interference, as he never . lost an opportunity of urging his oongregation to temperance. This iuci dent led- to-correspondence jn the press, and to his appearance on the public platform.

The address strongly disapproved of the priooiple of .prohibition and no-license. He condemned the present open bar system, and the:evils of the "shouting” ouetom, He suggested the Continental oafe system, :• which froth experience he oauld say ! did not- encourage excessive \dribkiDg. ! ' v , ; „t ; r :: Speaking of Ashburton, he . had . just wired to Father O’Donnell, the. parish priest there, asking, him i£/ptbbibitidn, was really a behefit, and the reply was : “ No ; taking all things into consideration prohibition is not a benefit.”