A NATIONAL QUESTION.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 August 1915, Page 5

A NATIONAL QUESTION.

To the Editor. """"Wl Sir,—Xow that we have in tliis Do*, minion a National Government we XM.JS ci;neei. that really national matters will-' lit- carefully attended to. Qi couraa !'.• war is coi-.fklered as of first impottai.Trv tUutfi if space permitted I could fcliov iyjt.'Jim' is something else in oar muht :*:at —i-i juore -harai, financially, j,h\>:tally a"«i siomrf.* *wm evoa the v.'itr; but that mint pas* JUI . i- , present. The war is so regarded in all pari* of the Empire, and by lie.- Allies, i-.3 oi the first importance; and yet the dnn:U .proKcm is running it very closa j or first p!a:e, or rather is of sueli fa* > pcr'ance as to Income a part of the ■ u; l .!' ]iru,.:,t;u. Ilu'.v, ilioii, should our Xf-uona: Covornnumt treat t'his truly. .c"oi quesnon ? V. liiie there fire ;»•••'".v vapin which there might be bet-:;-r regulations, ooiiirel and restriction m' the trade In intoxicants, there should ,;i ' l»"giiiainpr lLadu among the children, at oar scucoby teaching them the t-i'ut'u r.oout ahuholio drinks. For yesurj ...■ i ii.'re kvc twa more or less JccWa : mn-le at tcajliiup; the laws of !.;.;'lli; but, it ha-; always been an opjior.al o.' i:'.iailiov..: 1 iii.-bjec-i, or a culj!u'i. thai was ror-;;<::esl el very littia ir.vpcrir.rce: and !:oi:re -it- received but

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