WIDOWS AND DRINK.
To the Editor. Sir,—ln your good report of the opening of the Good Templars' Hall on Thursday, there are one or two passages I want to put more plainly to the general public. In speaking of the persons re 1 cciving charitable aid in Ashburton, about seventeen, I am reported to have said "mostly" widows caused by drink. I must have been misunderstood by the reporter, and did not clearly explain. Of the seventeen, the most are not widows; and, more, I do not for one moment believe they became so directly through drink. Ido know that some of their husbands were drinkers. It is now over eight years since no-license came into force in Ashburton, consequently we are not suffering directly much through drink victims in our population of nearly 15,000 people. Of the 59 names on the prohibition list at the end of license, J wish to say that I do not know that any of them arc prohibited now, but 1 cannot vouch for everyone after the lapse of over eight years. I am sure of this: that there is a great change as far as the number of prohibited persons, although we have a number of licenses in the county yet.—l am, etc., GEO. W. ANDREWS, J.P., G.C.T.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 44, 14 August 1911, Page 2
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215WIDOWS AND DRINK. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 44, 14 August 1911, Page 2
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