A QUESTION.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 March 1919, Page 5

A QUESTION.

To the Editor. Sir, —In September, 1913, I bought a case, i.e., a dozen botties, of whisky, which cost me £3 10s. I have about a bottle still left, but assuming that I had none, my liquor bill would work out for the 60 months that have elapsed since that time at Is Id per month, say one halfpenny per day; and as some of it was drunk by friends and visitors I do not think I can be labelled as a drinker, while I make no claim to being an abstainer. But the fact remains that I drank some of it, and when I drank it I not only wanted it but I wanted it badly, or I shouldn't have taken it, as T don't drink for drinking's sake. The bars being closed will not affect me, but absolute prohibition is another matter. If carried, shall I, before I can satisfy my need, have to ring up my doctor, and, having got his permission, then go to the chemist and get a bottle? This is a matter that affects many hundreds of sober people other than myself, and in case of sudden sickness might be a most important one. Will one of the speakers at the meeting to-morrow night answer this question and say what provision, if any, is proposed to bo made to meet ,such a case?—l am, etc., SIXTY YEARS. i -umk'brn f