MRS HARRISON LEE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 28, 3 February 1899, Page 2

MRS HARRISON LEE.

An afternoon meeting for women was held by Mrs Harrison Lee yesterday at the Central Mission Hall, Albert-street. Mrs Schnackenberg, president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, occupied the chair. An interesting and instructive address was given by Mrs Lee on temperance work and the training of the young. In the evening a public meeting was held at the Mission Hall. There was a crowded attendance. Mr Theo. Cooper presided, and in the course of a few remarks stated that the local option law of New Zealand was such that the people could have prohibition any time they were united and in earnest about it. Mrs Lee gave an address, dealing with the question as to how the revenue would be provided if prohibition came into force. She held that the country would sustain no loss through prohibition, for the money now spent on drink would be diverted into trade channels. Speaking of the local option law Mrs Lee said it had two blots —they could only reduce the publichouses to a certain number, and then an abolition compensation had to be paid, amounting to about £1000 a license. It might look pretty in theory, but it came out badly in practice. Mrs Lee was accorded a hearty vote of thanks for her address. During an interval Miss Violet Plummer sang 'The Carnival,' her sister playing the accompaniment. Tonight Mrs Lee will ad.dress a combined meeting of Bands of Hope in the Church of 'Christ, West-street, •Newton.