Auckland Letter.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42797, 26 October 1905, Page 2

Auckland Letter.

(From our own Correspondent.) How is this for an association ?: “ The Auckland Provincial Shipowners, Ship, Yacht and Boatbuilders, Industrial Union of Employers.” The above high-sounding and all-embracing nautical mixture come to light on Friday.

The cause of Prohibition will be championed this coming week by Mrs Harrison Lee in the different churches and halls of this city. Mrs Lee, who is termed the “Queen of Temperance,” will be listened to with great attention and her visit, following so soon lon tl at of Father Hays, will no doubt gain many more c inverts from the ranks of the. liquorists. More power to her, say we, and the good wishes of all the people who possess one atom of common sense must, on the face of things, be with her in her courageous attempt to better the lives of thousands of poor wives and half-fed children. When will the young men and boys of New Zealand, cease to think that it is a great thing to go out and get ‘ shiker” (as they politely call the beastly state into which they drink themselves), and look into the future from a sensible point of view ? Let them stop poisoning their systems, as they assuredly are doing and try good old Adam’s ale for a change and instead of bequeathing to their offspring a craving for strong drink and its attendant evil®, they will have the satisfaction of knowing that, thrcugh a little self-denial on their part, their children will grow up strong, clearminded and a comfort to them in their old age. The last few lines read more like a sermon than a business letter, but I allowed my pen to run away with me on this occasion, hoping that when the time for sending men to represent us in Wellington comes round, some who may read this, will not forget to give their vote to a man who will lend his voice in the making of laws for the welfare of our rainy, though beautiful little colony.