TEMPERANCE ESSAY COMPETITION.

White Ribbon, Volume 25, Issue 295, 19 January 1920, Page 6

TEMPERANCE ESSAY COMPETITION.

NEW BKIGHTON •SCHOOL. Standard \’l : First Prize awarded to Robert Frame. National Prohibition. lo have National Piohihilion would mean a great deal foi New Zealand. As she is still a young country, it is easiei now to abolish the drink traf In than if left lo the future. Not long ago we had a great deal of t dk about Prohibition. Manx of the re fumed solcb'Ts voted for Continuant e, hut we do n°t know until the end of the next poll whet he. Piohihilion is (allied. If Prohibition weic carin'! the amount of money spent in’ the .drink trade could he used in fai bettci occupations than in brewing and sell ing spirits. Vodka was prohibit<*<l in Russia before the war, but sirue tin* revolution the making of it has been resumed. Ihe Americans have abolished the drink, and win can’t a mi,ill emintrx like ours have powei • resist the temptation. The man who votes for Continuance does so in ig norance of tie harm it does lo bis hodx. lie earis a week’s wages, but half of it is spent at the bar of a hotel that stands in his way as he goes home from work. It is not only be who suffers fiom the effects of drink, but also his wife and children, who ate in need of food, which is so dear. The monex saved hv Prohibition would enable the Government to pay off the National Debt, or to provide cheaper necessities for the working - lass The sugar and other ma terials used in brewing liquor would become cheaper. One big brexxcrv in \mcrica was turned into a flour mill when the country went "dry." The Bishop of London said that more than half thi' crime in Gi« lb Pain is done through drink, w hich also causes about a quarter of the dr iths Then xxlix do so manv of New Zealand’s peo| h* -till vole for Continuance ?