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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2111, 10 February 1908, Page 3

Alake Aloni'v ny Visiting our Sale. Gents’ Straw Hats, usual price 2s 6d to 4s 6d, now Is each.—O. Rosie anil Co. • .

• DRINK AND THF. CHILDREN. (Dart 2.) . Again, (his traffic robs children of HOME AND .I.'ARENTA L LOVE. Dr. Barnardo, in his report for 1888, ehiil that “of all iny .young clients Lho . percentage through the agency 'off tlio drink curse is over AH) per cent.” Uio Wails aißUStrays Society stated that “hilly 75 per cent of the cases dealt with were due to drink.” One of the guardians of Bristol said that “90 per cent of the children under the care of the Board are so through thp drinking habits <>i tlffi'pareuts.” Another guardian said that SO per cent cl children in the Bolton Workhouse are there through the satne cause. The Manchester Branch ot the National Society for the Prevention, .of Cruelty? i-o •Children reports ydiat “drinlV accounts for .90 per cent of their cases.” The. Liverpool branch of tlie same .Society reports to a similar effect. Of all the human influences that should he the happiest, brightest and most helpful to a child, and that should he' the subject of endearing memories in the future years, are those of home-l’fe. And yet the Liquor Traffic, with a ruthless hand, is turning an incalculable ho.>t of dear , boys and girls out of homes (first of all changed into centres oi intolerable erneltyt into workhouses and kindred institutions. Instead of being centres of a bright and happy circle all their own, they are congregated in masses, to live in an atmosphere altogether foreign to their instincts and needs. Is it not montrously cruel that such a state of things should he allowed in a. so-called Christian country? Once oiore, the Drink Traffic robs children of FOOD. In 1894 Dr. Warner and a small committee examined no less than 50,000 children attending day schools in London, and found that 21 per cent came to .school without sufficient food: In the great majority of cases this was the result oi drink. Is it not an appalling fact to contemplate that tho large number of (our children are being stunted in growth and physically repressed by this blight upon our modern civilisation-—tho licensed sale of alcoholic liquor? This traffic also rolls children of BRAINS. As a result of the same examination, |)r Warner discovered the awful fact that no less than 42 per cent of the 50,000 children were, “constitutionally stupid,” or, in ollu-n words, destitute of even average brain power. This mental deterioration—mainly the result- of: the Liquor -Traffic—not only involves a Icarlul handicap tor the poor child as it outers into - the keen competition of life, hut it forms a sad outlop'k for our national future. Again', the Liquor Traffic robs children of EDUCATION. Mr. Mundella, late of the Education Department, London, stated that in some parts.of that city it was almost impossible to got,.the children to school, owing to their being so dirty, ragged, neglected, etc. ; and he added that the inspector told him that this fearful state of things was in muetentlis of the eases owing to the drink.. . Surely facts like these ought to impress all who have minds to think and hearts to feel. Advt. C.P.

WILLIAMS AND KETTLE Ltd. Will hold their NEXT STOCK SALE WEDNESDAY NEXT, 12th . Inst. MAT A WHEHO Y ARDS When they will offer— SHEEP, CATTLE, PIGS, Etc. PRESENT ENTRIES: 000 MIXKU HEAD MIXED CATTLE Further Entries Invited Sale 11.30 n.m. G. R. WYLLIE, • . Auctioneer. I .c E I- T • Is the pure extract of Fruit-juices. Is Non-alcoholic, and the most moling and refreshing beverage ever introduced to the N. Z. Market. Try it 1 E. B. DUFAUR, Agent, Auckland.