OTHER PEOPLE’S IDEAS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 March 1942, Page 2

OTHER PEOPLE’S IDEAS

LIQUOR AND WAR (To the Editor.) Sir, —I wonder how much longer it will be before the Government decides to take steps to grapple with this wretched liquor question? Mr Hislop, Mayor of Wellington, has had something to say about it, and Mr Milner, secretary of the New Zealand Alliance, has protested through the press several times, but no notice has been taken of these two very responsible men. It is a well known fact that liquor is most decidedly hampering New Zealand’s war effort. I heard a returned soldier say a few days ago that if it hadn’t been for whisky and beer in both high and low ranks of the forces the war would have been over by now and in our favour too. . . . Some few months back two very brave women of this town started a campaign against this and other evils, but I am afraid they didn’t get very much encouragement; rather did they get sneers, laughs and ridicule from a great section of the women in this town. If we could only get some of the newspapers to take up a fight against this very serious evil what a tremendous help and uplift it would be to those few who are trying so hard to do something and are yet so helpless. —I am, etc., “UP & DOING.” Masterton, March 4.