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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2267, 12 August 1908, Page 1

[Corrospondonco on public mutters is welcomed at all times, but it must bo distinctly understood that this journal is in no vyay associated with tho opinions of its correspondents.] NO LICENSE. [To tub Eni-ron.] Sir, —Your correspondent “Quid Nunc” tried in your issue of yesterday to ho funny and. at tho same time to bring no-license into dicredit. He, in his present state of mind, would ratlior believe a Mr. Hackett than the Mayor of Invert-irgill, tho Inspector pf Police, and the “Southland Times,” who ought t 0 be in a- better position to iudgo as to the advantages of no-lieenso over license which for many years before ruled in their city. “Quid Nunc” must bo suffering from flint kind of blindness which would not seo, a much sadder 'affliction than “lion blindness” is. Only a mind peculiarly constituted like “Quid Nunc’s” could j: -silily conceive of any analogy at ui between the smelling mud geysers of AVaimata and no-license in Invercargill— long distance certainly lies between Invercargill and AVaiiiiata. Most peoplo had always thought that smell, mud, and liquor always lived and travelled togotlier. AVI ion liquor was first introduced to the Maori, lie naturally consulted liis nose, and after calling it “Vaipiro,” i.e., stinking water, flung it away with grimaces and disgust. AA’ould that he had never picked up the jioisonous stuff! But what could lie do, poor wretch, when it was forced upon him by his high-pedestalled pakelia brother, and oven now its sale is tolerated and countenanced. If there is any analogy at all, it is rather between the liquor traffic as exists in our midst and a mud geyser like A\ r aimangu or AA’aimata geysers. A mud geyser throws up mud occasionally, and may oven repose at times, but the liquor traffic is without a moment’s rest, and will continue to be so as long as wo are indifferent enough to let it. AYaimangn, after swallowing a few men and women, for very shame closed down, but the liquor traffic will never close down on its own account; it must be made to do so. and we hive that power in our hands. —I am, etc,, “AVHAT NO'AV.” THE mails: [To the Editor.] Sir, —A mail notice re Home mails lias been advertised these last few days at the Post Office and in tile local press. For a mail to close at Gisborne on August 29th and t 0 arrive in London on September -sth is rather a tall order; something our “Amurrican” visitors will not want to. take on. Perhaps our esteemed postmaster has arranged a tube connection, Apologising" for troubling—l am, etc., “NEAV CHUM.” [There is evidently an error somewhere, but the mail notice referred to is as given to us by the Post Office. —Ed. “G.T.”3