THE LICENSING QUESTION.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 January 1919, Page 5

THE LICENSING QUESTION.

'2UBLKJ 1 MEETING TO NIGHT.

Readers are reminded of the piAlio meeting to be Trcld al the Empire theatre this evening, when -addresses will b» given by Air. D. M Findlay and Mr jR. A. Armstrong, president'and sec re tarj' respectively of the New Zealand Moderate League They will put before the meeting tie views of the moderate men in respect to tho liquor question, and it goes without E&ying that they will do so in an interesting and forcible way. for both are polished and incisive speakers who have made a dose study of the question Mr. Findlay w a leading barrister of Wellington who has no interest whatever in the trade, so he can speak disinterestedly and dispassionately, not as a fanatic but as a, patriot, who wishes to see the best thing done in the interests of the whol# of Sew Zealand and not of a particular section of it Mr Armstrong is one of the greatest friends of the soldiers As president of the Second" Division " League, lie has probably done more, by his zealous and successful advocacy, to improve tie lot of the soldiers and "their dependants lhan any other man m ib* country. IFor that reason ho wffi tw accorded a respectful bearing The speakers should greatly help the rofcfo to properly comprehend this tcbw ittport ant eubject.