PROHIBITION RALLY

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 511, 14 November 1928, Page 12

PROHIBITION RALLY

ELOQUENT APPEALS TO VOTERS BIG AUDIENCE ENTHUSIASTIC Before a large audience in the Town Hall last evening, speakers on behalf of the Prohibition movement made a final appeal to voters. The meeting was enthusiastic, the interjections being few and mild. Sir George Fowlds presided, and effectively introduced the speakers. He devoted his brief address to a clear description of the presidential contest in the United States, noting that it was the greatest Prohibition battle in the history of the world. Those who had followed the political campaign and heard scores of platform speakers were amazed at the competent fluency of Mr. R. A. Laidlaw, who gave the first big address of the evening. He spoke with .the firm and fighting passion of an orator who had his cause at heart, stating the case the Prohibition Part}' and sketching in broad, clear lines, the history of various New Zealand dis- i tricts which had embraced Prohibi- ; tion. He also replied vigorously to a min- ' ister who had pleaded that his own Christianity prevented him from being a Prohibitionist. Incidentally, Mr. Laidlaw described the Bible as the greatest champion of the prohibition of evil. The Rev. J. W. Kemp characterised the preceding address as a great and statesmanlike appeal to which, indeed, little could be added. Mr. Kemp noted the annual waste caused by drink.