ANTI-LIQUOR MEETING

Hokitika Guardian, 31 October 1928, Page 2

ANTI-LIQUOR MEETING

A meeting in favour of Prohibition Held last night Nn the Town Hall was addressed by Mrs Goring, of Christchurch, and Mr O. Mcßri.no, of Auckland.

Mrs Goring, who has had 22 years experience as an inspector Hor tb Christchurch Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, dealt searcliingly with 1 -

i effects of drink in causing poverty, squalor, cruelty and disease. She related many cases which had come under her own experience directly due to drink and appealed to her hearers to work and vote for prohibition at the forthcoming poll for tlie. sake o the women and'children'and the young people- coming of age who must otherwise fall' into temptation.

Mr Mcßrine stated that if the. c sumption of liquor increased in tin next three years at the same rate as in the last three, about thirty million pounds would lie passed across the bars between this poll and the next. 1-Ie asked his hearers whether we go*, value for the Money. Among the thing we got for it was thirty thousau police court cases of-drunkenness and crime associated with drink during tr last three ye'arß. "• More than half'of these cases were first offStidhrs. : Call we afford 'this waste ahd shame? He thought not. If his hearers thought as he did, the> could stop it by their vote on November 14th. At "the conclusion of his address questions were asked for but none were forthcoming.