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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3030, 29 October 1908, Page 6

LICENSE or NO-LICENSE ? WHAT MARIE COUELLX and RTTDYAED KIPLING say about the DRINK QUESTION. FORCIBLE APPEALS. WHY RUDYARD KIPLING BECAME A PROHIBIJIONIST. Injhis "'American Notes," Rudyard Kipling, the English author, who has obtained a world-wide celebrity, tells how, in a concert hall in Buffalo, he saw two young men get two girls drunk and then lead them reeling down a dark street. Mr Kipling has not been a total abstainer, nor have his writings commended Temperance; but of that scene he writes: — "Then, recanting previous opinions, I became a ProhibitionistBetter it is that a man stiouid go without his beer in public places, and content himself with swearing at the narrow-mindedness of the majority; better it is to poison the inside with vile Temperance drinks, and to buy lager furtively at back doors, than to bring temptation to the lips of young folks such as the four I hadseen. I understand now why the preachers rage against drink, I' have said 'There is no harm in it, taken moderately,' and yet my own demand for beer helped directly to send these girls reeling downthe.dark street —God alone knows to end. If liquor is worth drinking, it is worth a little trouble to come at—> such trouble as a man will undergo to compass his own -desires. It is not good that we should let it lie before the eyes of children, and I have been a fool in writing to the contrary." In the preface to her latest book, "Holy Orders," MarieCorelli says: — "In my present story I have selected only one episode out of many tragedies—tragedies which drink writes across millions of homes and millions of lives. ...... "As for the Drink Evil, I wish that everyone into whose hands this book may fall would honestly, try to realise the widespread misery, disease, pauperism, crime and lunacy for which that hideous vice is responsible, and would add his or her wish and will to mine, in a strong prayer that the wicked financial profit derived by the few out of the physical and moral debasement of the many, may be checked and finally come to naught, so that the British people, released at last from the dominant sway of the liquor traffic, may rise to the best of everything in them—the best of brain, the best of work, the best of health, the best of life. A temperate people must always be a strong people, and to hold our own in the days that are coming, we shall need all the strength that sound minds and sound bodies can give us. There is no room in the future of Britain for a national vice which betrays a national weakness. MARIE CORELLI. Stratford-on-Avon, July, 1908. No-License means less orime, less lunacy, less poverty, less disease, and a stimulus to material prosperity, m'ore employment to labour and higher wages. A wave of No-License is .going to spread over the Dominion at the coming election. Is Masteiton to be one bf the happy places that carries it ? We believe so. Be sure you record your vote, and be sure you STRIKE OUT THE TOP LINE ONLY.

THE PUBLIC WOEKS ACT. MASTERTON BOROUGH COUNCIL. OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN of the intention of the Masterton Borough Council to take, under the provisions of the Public Works Act for the purpose of street widening and extension certain lands situate within the administrative area of the Borough of Masterton and forming parts of sections l'and 43, (IV. Tiffin S.D.)'Manaia,and of Section 7'Masterton Small Farm Settlement (1 Otahoua S.D)which said lands are more particularly, described in the Schedule hereunder—that a plan shewing the said lands together with the names of Owners and Occupiers thereof so far as the same are known is upi?n deposit at the offices of the said Council, Chapel Street, Masterton, there open to public inspection during usual office hours —that the said Council hereby call upon all persons afiected or likely to be affected by the taking of the said lands to set forth in writing any well-grounded objection or objections to the taking of the said lands for the purposes aforesaid and to send such writing to the Masterton Borough Council within FORTY DAYS of the date of the publication hereof and FURTHER NOTICE is hereby given that upon receipt of any such objection or objections as aforesaid the said Council will apppint a time and place for the consideration thereof of which due notice will be given. THE SCHEDULE REFERRED TO.

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