CORRESPONDENCE.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43377, 24 September 1908, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

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To the Editor.

Sir. -As a member of tlio Auckland •Voinen’s political Association I have i een deeply interested in the controv rsy going on in your columns re the above. Certainly it has been a striking instance of feminine sense against male nonsense, for the clase of “nude” which lots taken upon himself the ouus of trying to heap ridicule on the worthy Captain' has made himself an object of contempt, and shown that only writers who can discuss an issue sensibly, have been women. Instead of conforming to the first essentials of debate, i. e. discussing the matter in hand, they have simply descended to j ersoimlilies and dragged nail sorts of ridiculms pusillanimities having no bearing on the subject. The writer trusts the sensible lady voters who alone have relieved the correspondence from banality, will from a Women’s Political Le tgue in Te Aroha, and show these small-minded males how to do things, and (if possible) instil a little sense into them. If these /laftor can bring their wits to bear on one point sufficiently long, they will come to the conclusion that footballers are a “ rough! lot ” when the press describes a match as “ a gory fight, ” and these gentry would be more suitably tended in the Bath House by mi'ldleaged women than youDg girls in their teens or early twenties.^!

am, Sir, etc. , ( M. LAviNGroN Clyde, L. S. W Auckland, Sept. 21st 1908.

; > Sir, I see the Temperance party have started their crusade again There was a pamphlet put under my door giving a report of the no license in Invercargill. There certainly should be some law to prevent this kind of thing, no mau or woman has 'a right to go cn private property to try aud ram down the throats of the people their pet ideas. It has been proved over and over again, that no license is a ghastly failure, wherever it .has been tried. I will ask the thiuking people >f Te Aroha to consider what would be the result if No-L’cence was carried ia Te Aroha ? Let the business people think what a blow it would be to them, let them think of the hundreds of pounds the hotels spend in this town for stores, not to mention the Butchers and Bakers. The Hotel Keepers always try to keep the money in the district, they are not like the private people, who think very little about supporting the local people bat often send to Auckland when they can buy the same kind of goods in the town as reasonable as they can get it from Aucklan). The Hotel Keepers never grudge a reasonable piofit, as they say, they get a fair profit thems -Ives, and their motto is “ Live and let live”. Look at the fierce opposition there was to the granting the Waiorongomai Hotel license, no less than forty crusaders went to Paeroa to oppose it, but wo ipay bp thankful for the fair minded men on the Licening Committee. Now, sir, that Hotel has been the means of circulating a lot of money. The trades people of Te Aroha got the furnishing and l have been informe 1 on god authority tlpit there was nota shilling sent out of thedif = triftt for the fit’ing up of that house, and we have men amongst us, who would try to stop this busiiess. Now, Sir, I will ask each man and woman to carefully consider this question for do not be let away by any false report# As the Rev. E. M. Cowie said at Caniy* bridge, he objected to take the liviu.g from decent men, why should we do it here, when the trade is such a benefit to the town. —I am etc., AnteHujib G,