CORRESPONDENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 December 1917, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

■*tUMG AND CO. | . To the Editor.. Sir,—-To anyone really interested in the trend of events outside the war two very striking reports have appeared this week. Firstly in your issue of Wednesday your correspondent reports from "Wellington as follows:—''Six o'clock closing was inaugurated in Wellington most peacefully. Some three thousand soldiers were on leave in the city and there "were rumors at the street corners during the early part of the day that the men in uniform were going to show their disapproval of the new order of things after fl p.m. But nothing happened. The hotels closed quietly. Some of them did an unusually big dinner trade and found that they had thirsty diners. The Act makes provision for liquor with bona fide evening meals. To-day the police reported that for the first time within the memory of many constables there had been no arrtsts for drunkenness on Saturday night." Good for Wellington! No arrests for Saturday night! Let the Prohibition Party make a. striking note of this bit of information. It will be very Useful, I. am sure. Then we have the report that the Americans are, spending seven and a-half thousand million dollars cn w«r material and defences, this report ending with the statement that a Bill is to be passed for total prohibition tliroughout the whole of America for the ( per Tod of the war. How grand! How! statesman-like! No halfrmeasures here! UTo 6 o'clock tourili! ?vo bosh about bolstering up the country's revenue with Bung and Co! Simply that the cute American knows full well that, the war cannot be won unless Bung and Co. is swept away, and the sooner the Xew Zealanders rise to the occasion the better for all concerned.— I am, etc., WILLIE J. FRKKTH. Pukearuhe, Deo 8.