AS A MEDICINE.

Otaki Mail, 31 January 1919, Page 4

AS A MEDICINE.

"FOR YOUR STOMACH'S SAKE." A Dealing' with Mr Armstrong's refer- ~ ( encc to the shortage of-stimulants on the transport;Tahiti when the epidemic, broke out, and his statement'thai, the Prohibitionists had objected to.brandy and whisky being put aboar I a hospital ship, Mr R. S. Gray, speaking at a meeting in "Wellington, said thnt he understood every transport carried suffi-' cicnt stimulant for the conditions of a normal voyage. It was only because the conditions were, so abnormal that tho shortage occurred.' (Applause). They had objected to the huge quantity of spirits, etc., that was going to be taken on the hospital ship Marama, in January, 1916, because they saw a tender that had been called for:—Arrowroot 4501b5, jelly 7501b5, cocoa and similar food and comforts for invalids in like quantities, but brandy 780 bottles (applause), stout 7200 half-pinV bottles (laughter), port wine 1128 bottles (laughter), claret 216 bottles, gin 824 bottles (laughter), whisky -408 bottles (laughter), 'Jomoßs 10 cases — "for the whisky?" (laughter); and, "to k*ep fhe firemen up to dick, no -doubt," champagne 1000 pints. (Loud, j •laughter).->• Seeing that tender, they j thought that the authorities"were going j ou St. Paul's injunction to'Timothy to ' "take a little wine for .your'stomach's sake," and that-they meant the wine for outward application that they meant the- men to swim in it. • ("Loud ; laughter). They thought it wars not' j good enough. It was too barefaced", j ■(Applause). Clearly ail that was not J for the consumption of tlie patients. (Applause and laughter.*) So the Alliance' objected to such large quantities being taken on the ship. But they had never objected to a sufficient quantity ; being taken for medicinal a purposes'. ; (Applause).