NO-LICENSE REFORM

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 387, 16 August 1911, Page 4

NO-LICENSE REFORM

ADDRESS HY MISS HUGHES. Miss Anderson Hughes, one of the ablest lady speakers in the interests of temperance reform, visited To j Kuiti yesierday, and after holding a | successful Dii'i'lini; with a nuinner of i ladies in the afternoon, addressed a | public imeimg in the Town Hall laßt iii:;l)!. Hi: Worship the Mayor, Mr ,1a:-. 1 ■ mhi i. ■, prosjded. Miss 1 i»i j * 111 • :-5 is an able exponent of ; (he subject she specialises, and gave many apt and graphic illustrations of (b' eli ( ((;: id' alcoholic liquor on the !iv<s ei ]i;e'.), women and children here ; and in .dhcr lands. She had toured (be Ncrib I:-land recently, and believed i the Dominion prohibition vote would ; be very heavy indeed, and if they did not carry the vole it would be curried iat an early election. At the last elecI lion tluy bad a majority of JI3,00() votes, which m a little country like this was a marvellous thine;. Alcohol was understood better than ever before. A medical expert at the medical congress in London classed it as a poison, because 1 it attacks the brain The pure juice of the grape was harmless, and she bad seen grapes squeezed in Australia and the juice drunk without any ill effect?. It was only when alcohol was in the cup, when people " looked on the wine when it was red" that harm came. King .Solomon did not warn people against white wine- or green wine, hut red wine. Prmk bad been tried in New j Zealand for ', o years, and last year j there w<-re 1 i, (inn arrests for drunkenI ness. Sin urgid her hearers to try I (o help and make .New Zealand a ! brighti r, boiler place to live in than the Old l.and. She also referred to the "catch my pal" movement, started in Armai'h.. Ireland, two years ago by a I Presbyterian minister, and growing j to a membership of 1(10,(10(1 in HeVun I months., ami ov< r a million strong j last year. The men in that, movement I wore "Wo w-.li ; co this thin)"; through, j and the wc.m< n responded "And if the nan (ion'i. wo women will." So ! far '.'O.ooi: women in New Zealand were piciim.; seams! the drink. She appcah d '.■ !•■' v audience to help, and I many of ti.i mmi and women repeated 1 tin- pa .wo. i heir late leader in : Chrisicki.ich spoke of I'lll as the | year of emancipation, and it would be if th.ey wen- true to God and to themA number of questions were asked ami answered. Votes of thanks to the Mayor and Miss Hughes closed the proceedings, after which, a branch of the WC.T.U. : was formed.