Correspondence. Correspondents' opinions are not necessarily ours. INEBRIATES' INSTITUTIONS' ACT, 1893.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 6, 10 June 1899, Page 3

Correspondence. Correspondents' opinions are not necessarily ours. INEBRIATES' INSTITUTIONS' ACT, 1893.

(TO TltL UDirOTi.) '•Whnt, rli ln*t know Fljnn, Flynn of Vn^iiin", Why, sfi .viper, A\hai hey ye bin 9 " •■ Sin —The abo\e quotation was mou«h f foiciilv to iiv mind, esneriallv file second line, by ieA'Uir< voui leader in Thmsdav's issue of the Advctispr, "Why, shane;ei, \vha> lipv ye li.n." You =pe'ik in appieeulivo teims of an Inpbuates' Act, passed by the Bntish PaiHanient la^t yep-, and iwr-rc ci- tli^t om Pai'iamont shoukl adopt a simil \i ore. But, don't you know, did'nt Mijoi Steward tell us that last session ths Ino n h es Institution Bill, in!iodnccd bv l\lr Joye 5 , was pTs«etl by the NeiV Zea'nnd I'aiJiament. Jf jon Mil' look up \om cony of the Nciv Zodland Stabiles fOlf 01 iS!)3, on pastes 16" - 22, yon will find the Act wi'h Schedules complete. I need not ttonble you with all its p:o\ib-lon-j, mcn'nn oi the clnef ones will be sniiicicit Fioin these it will be seen that we .up ahead of Gieat Butam in this mAttei. Tb.it Art pi ovules tb.it the GovPinoi in Council ma,v dnect that any cstab'ishment oi othei bui'dino;, the piopeity oi t!io Ciown, sba-1 be an inslituhon for insbnatos. C anss G pio\ides that incbuafe-5 bpjn,c; sober at the time. mn,v apply to .I Judge of the Supreme Court, Distuct Oomt, or S.M., for an older of almnsion to an institution. Cause 7 allovVs lurband Oi wi'e, Oi any relation or h lend, to app'y foi an or lei ayamst an niebuafe. By cause 9 an S.Mmay, of his own motion, if satisfied tii.it a poison befoie him is an inebiute, order such peison to be detained in an institution. Taie, the Novv Zealand Art pioMdeb Jor detention and tiearineiit for a penod \>o* PX'eeiin<> on a ye.iv, but theie is nothing in the Act to prevent a person beu>g coinnntfed for a furthoi lei ra it tre J'lst Ij.is uoL eifected a cui<? So you see, in e-ieiy ]e?pect, ortrs is the better lneasu c. You should bend your enei'^ies and influence in the du&sfcion ot gettm» tlie Gjvei nmont to put the Act; into foioe. la thid yon will have the suppoit of iho I'loh.bifionists, for though they define to s"b v iiute mebr.ate >' homes for No licence, they would be gad, for the sake oT the victims cf the ttaleyoupbampion. to oee the Act m opeialion. Don't you think that the fa-t tlia*-. the Government lms done nothing is a pretty cleai &ij;n that &L 1 Seddon is -wailing lor the result of the licensing poll befoie doing a.nyth,ng ? Obviously, luebnateb Institutions will not ho requned where '• Ko Lieei se" is canircl.-^-I am, &tn., Tl«». JJttOWJT.

[O'ju correspondent has unfoitnn.xtely missed the point ol out Article Woaie quite awo.ie of an Act on the Statute Book by whi^h an inebiia'.e may be committed for phi mil* intoxication. In fact we condensed the law into a sent-ence-cone't to all intents and pmpi^es — that, thiio wete "peuniswe A'*N which al'o" °d a man to anplv to a emit oE law," and Mi Biown wonkl have ns be'ievo the English and fti'w Z°n'and A'ts aie the tame. The fonts of distinction ,ie those ; that tho latVu is sull pGinmsm'3 and ha-> not hecn put in toice, as he himself says and, pe^on^lv, the ln^bnate innst be biou»ht befoie the Conit, piarticallv by fue'idb 01 lelatives. while in the EnjMsb. Act the (iiunLaul is piinishrd for tli.it offence, thoucrh he ponies be f oie Uie C iuit ior anothei. Now the difTcicnfe is lilnsti.ited bv the p>ovcib " Caioh \oui haie befoie you cook it " The English Act does this, the New Zealand does hot, and hence as we said in oir ait'cJp "for canons leasons and foi "iTn.nvob\ions ones, it i-> seldom taken " advantage of '" Fi lends and lclatnes aic mt dialed befoie Couits so easily, and this is the weakness of the Act. Mi Ji'-own wutes ot the " victims of the "tiafie yon champion." Consiiieuncr the c\ + iPine 1 y iau wav in whio'i we dealt wuh tho b'lbject, Mr Brown's leniatk is simply mipemnent. It is a jvattei foi iep;iet that infeinpeiance of lanpna^e is so fiequontly displayed bv those who aie so iempeute in other thin?". Mi Biown's Riatuitonq uulencswill no f . pie\ eat ris fi oin ilomgwhat little lip« m ovu power to aid the cau»o of TEMPrniNC , both in liquor and in lanina^e— nitempeiance in either is cqnaliy announg to decent folk. — En.