CANADA LENDS US MR BAYLEY.

White Ribbon, Volume 24, Issue 281, 18 November 1918, Page 12

CANADA LENDS US MR BAYLEY.

Canada’s National Temperance Society Royal Templars of Temperance. Office of Grand Secretary: 2(x>, Young Street. W innipeg, June 7, 1918. To the Temperance Forces of New Zealand. Greeting,— We desire to commend to your confidence and esteem <>ur good and worthy brother. Mr W. 1). Bayley, junr., who is about to visit your Dominion to assist you in a campaign for the abolition of the liquor traffic. • During our campaign in Manitoba, which culminated in the overwhelming defeat of the liquor interests on March 13th, 1916, Mr Bayley was one of our most active workers, and contributed not a Ivttle to the splendid victory’ which we obtained at that time. When the tight was on in British Columbia, they secured the services of Mr Bayley, and it was largely owing to his splendid leadership that such a large majority was secured for the enactment of prohibition. Our friends in British Columbia would have been cheated out of their victory had Mr Bayley not proceeded to Great Britain and France to superintend the taking of the vote amongst the soldiers belonging to British Columbia. Grave irregularities were being permitted, and prompt action was necessary to secure their correction. We believe that you will find in Mr Bayley one who is up-to-date in all matters pertaining to the abolition of the liquor traffic, and one who is well qualified to take a leading part in the direction of the campaign necessary to secure that much desired end. W'e can assure you that the elimination of the liquor traffic, even to the iimited extent which we had previous to April ist of this year, has been of untold benefit to our people and to the Province at large. Now that we have secured an enactment from the Dominion Parliament prohibiting the export of liquor from a province where its sale is permitted to one where the sale is not permitted, we expect a much greater improvement in this connection. W'e sincerely hope and pray that your efforts to secure the abolition of the liquor traffic from New Zealand may be entirely successful, and the results exceed your most sanguine expectations.

May the day speedily come when the liquor traffic shall be driven from Great Britain and all her dominions and dependencies.—Yours in the work, Manitoba Grand Council R.T. of T. (Sgd.) JAS. E. ELLIS, Grand Councillor. (Sgd.) J. MABEL HALL, * Grand Secretary.