CHANGE NOT FOR THE BETTER.
A visitor to Ohinemuri, report* that the women in the various districts bitterly regret the return of the Licensed Bars. In one town women may be seen leading their husbands past the doors of the Hotels on their way to the mine? as no intoxicated man is allow'ed to go down a mine, and on pay-day waiting to lead them home. It reminds one of a remark of Gipsy Smith’s that “Some men are so strong that they cannot carry their wages past a public-house.” Women report that the streets are no longer safe for them to be abroad in the evenings, boisterous drunks being encountered, and undesirable characters coming into the town Convictions for drunkenness and crimes arising therefrom, have ii creased to an alarming extent. There is a wail of sadness and regret echoing throughout the once compora tively clean and happy townships. The wearing of the little White Bow is a silent but telling protest against the return of this iniquitous traffic.
Members in dry areas should take heed and watch and pray, and labour to keep that prohibition wdiich loyal and faithful hearts gained for them
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White Ribbon, Volume 32, Issue 376, 18 October 1926, Page 2
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195CHANGE NOT FOR THE BETTER. White Ribbon, Volume 32, Issue 376, 18 October 1926, Page 2
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