DISTRICT NEWS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 May 1911, Page 2

DISTRICT NEWS.

_— c EVENTB IN SHANNON. (Chronicled by our Resident Representative.) Til 1C PROHI.MT.TOX CAMPAIGN. The. first gun announcing the opening of the triennial war, Proluhition. v. Liquor, was fired l by Mrs Harrison Lee at the Shannon Druids' Hall on Thursday evening. The Rev. MoKenzie occupied' the chair, and in a few well-chosen renuairki; introduced the speaker. Mrs Harrison Lee, on rising, was enthusiastically received. -ho spoke fluently and clearly for over an hour, to a rather small, though attentive, audience. The lecture was spread over almost the earth's sinri'iace, dealing with the liquor traflic and its effects upon the social life of the people. The reference to the state of the school board children in! England was of a very pathetic nature, the description of the poor little creatures huddled together in a school looking forlorn, hungry and neglected; the free meal given to the starving, and how greedily, the food was devoured; but the most pathetic part was when the lecturer described those who did not eat the men I and the reason of this being asked 'by Mrs Harrison Lee, she was informed "they are too far gone." Miseries of this description were limped up till a ghastly mountain of hunge'i v ,-.clfiftpaii', ease, etc., stood in froiilit of tlnrau-* dience. Then the lectin oi t displaved England's huge drink Inliani! here was enough to, relieve all this suffering many times ovor. m referring to the social i onditions in the Old Country them was a< Ima need difference between Mis Hamsoii Lee's description and that of a very learned divine who lectwedi here, some time ago giving his experiences of In's trip Home. Nevertheless, Mrs Harrison Lee's statements ai'e fully borne out by parliamentary speeches by Labour M.P.'s and Radical! newspapers, etc

The lecturer gave some- interesting accounts of how Prohibition was. going on in Invercargill, and other places. She quoted figures ta-ndi statistics to show that the prophecies that had been made by their opponents bud all been found to be more ghosts. Tt is not necessary to say that tlio lecture.ss is a gifted speaker, filled brim full of facts; her * reputation is too well-known, to require any special words of commendation. LAWN TENNIS. In the nvatch for the Doubles, thefollowing a.re the results, so 'far:— Mr Barclay and Miss Smith, boat Mr Dunekley and Mrs Doidge; Mr Gardiner and Miss WickliiTe beat Mr Hook and Miss Linsell. Mr Barclay and Miss Smith beat Mr Mitchell and Miss Laurvig. A general meeting of the Lawn Tennis Olub decided to hold 1 tho a.innal sonial on June 22nd. Ti'.io social is to take the form of a euchre party and dance.