PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 233, 2 October 1922, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Judge Arson, of the Native Court, has j I returned to Wellington from Rarotonga. j ! Mr David Hamilton, of Wellington, ! left Auckland for the Empire City last . evening. I Mr. J. H. Fowler,.of the Government j i Audit OHieee, \\ ehinjton, id at tho L'en- j tral Hotel. • Mr D. C. E. Webster has been ap- i ' pointed deputy-regUtrar of the Supreme ! Court, Auckland. I Mr. A. U. Johnstoie. barrister and soli- I citor. has returned from a visit to j Canada and the I'nled States. ! Mr W. D. Lysnar. M.P., of Gisborne. ' who has been staring at the Grand I Hotel, leaves to-nijht for Wellington. I Mr. and Mr?. «i \V. Armstrong, ot ' Remuera left by tie L'lhnaroa this morn- ■ in<r on a five visit to AustraliaMr John (.lark,.of Gisborne, who ar- : rived at Auckland yesterday by the ■ Arahura, is sta\ ing at tlie Northern Club. Sir Robert Stout and Sir William Herries have been elated patron and president respectively of the New Zealand Natives' Association. Leave of absen* for the remainder of the session has been granted to the Hon. B. Harris by the Legislative Council, on account of ill-health] : The Hon. E. W. Alison !ia* ne.'n! granted leave of absence by tlie L<*gH I .ative Council for the remainder of the I session on account .of ill-health. i i Visitors at tie Grand Hotel at pre- j rent include .Messrs W. Kidston ! (Cl;ri.-tchiirchi, A. Duncan, of Awakino, ami S. Eiehelbanm, of Wellington. Sir Robert Stout, the Chief Justice, who has been fitting in the Supreme Court at Auckland during the past few ■ weeks, returned last night to Welling- I ton. To-day he will preside over a sit- i ting of the Court of Appeal. Advice has been received that Mr. XV. T. Ward, brother of Sir Joseph Ward, is I seriously ill atDunedin. Mr. Ward was' in the postal service, and was postmaster I at ralmerston North for several years.' ( Mr R. R. Steele, who has been studying ] .forestry and igricultnre at Edinburgh , , j ! returned by the Tahiti, which arrived at ! Wellington 01: Thursday. Accompanied! by Mrs Steel*, he arrived at Auckland I on Saturday. I Archbishop Redwood and Bishop White, of Dunedin. will represent New Zealand at tie annual convocation of | the Catholic iierarchy. to be held at St. I Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne. Arch-j bishop Redwood left Wellington by the ■ Tahiti. Mr. W. Grounds, of Hokianga, is now! in Wellington. He is chairman of the i special comiiiittee ele.-tnd by the dele- j j-'ates at the Dairy Producers' Conference ■ to draft the bill to go before Parliament i to bring a hullt control of exportable dairy prochw. The committee is now at work on the task. M>. .T. R. Johnston, commodore of the squadron, uas the recipient of a silver cigarette caie at the annual meeting of! the Royal >pw Zealand Yacht Squadron ' on Kriday to mark th,- '>cca>iun .if hi-I retirement from that positioh. His successor. Mr. i. Hurt, referred in eulogistic terms to tl* goo,l worK accomplished by -Mr. Jolmsttn during his term of ofTice. ' i Mr. A. M. Rowc. of the Edendale ' School, wh< has relinquished his position l ot first assistant master in order to take up an appni.tment at the Avondale' Soii... I. w:.i .„, Kri,] av ,]„. recipient of a! fruit bowland dishes from the teaching stan. a p.cket wallet from tile boys of! Standard [V.. and a small mementoVrom ! tl.e Pric-krt team. Mr. Rowe joined the, 19 0 U " incp P li °n »f the school in, Information was recently received by >rr Alfred X. Jowott that a nephew iMr \\. A. Jowett] had been appointed a Kings Cllllisel at tlie early o f IC, He share) with the Lord Chancellor the distinctim of being appointed a K.C. at tins age. Si r -John - Simon, who received his appointment at :',:,. is the ~;,|v \ twentiftJ c'Vntnry counsel who became a leader of the liar at an earlier •!>■<■ Mr JoWiU lias specialised in commercial" I law. The 1-fev. (i. c. C'ruii-k-Oiank vicar of Whangafei, has been ottered charge of I Kelson Cathedral, but has declined " The , position has fallen \ai-ant owing to the fact that Dean Weeks is going to All-- . i tralia. The ground for Mr. ( ruick- : shank-refusal io.that there is still work for hiji to do in Wliansrarei. In tlie ordinary course of events, the Vicar ofKelson would become the Deaa of I if

(Published by Arrangement.) '{■'.. MENACE OF DRINK TRAFFIC. M CTIAIXENGE TO TIIK CHURCH. REV. J. W. KEMP SPEAKS STRAIGHT.iI Last evening tlic Auckland BaptistW Tabernacle was crowded to ovt>rnowingjS| to bear the pastor, the Rev. J. W. Kemp,j|| who was announce.l to apeak on the ev >lsß| of the drink traffic in tiiN Uuid. : CANADIAN'S VIEWS. ;" Prior to taking hi* subject. Mr. Kempil introduced Mr. Mosicr. of Canada. whom|f lie invited to ipeak briefly regarding working of -prohibition in hi* country. B| Mr. Mosier refi-rre.il to the success of|p| prohibition in the province of Ontario,fig where it was first of all enacted by the || Govcrnmint as a war measure, and after B| three years' trial prohibition of into.\i-||| eating' liquor wae overwhelmingly j|| carried by the people by a majority of S 100.000 votes. In Canada they ha*l to contend with ji| what the people of Xciv Zealand did not. Sja namely, the h'.isre foreign element of; ■: population, ami it was a.lways the case H§ that in tiie wards inhabited by the ||| foreign clement the voting was decidedly ||j wet, hence the obstacle to the retaining ret of prohibition in Quebec, the population |p of which 13 greatly composed of Central j|| European countries. "Boot-leg<ring n ex- y|| i~ted to a certain extent, but the "boot- Kg legser" l/elongs very, very largely to the j|§ foreign portion of the people to whom ||| he had alluded as voting "wef," even in B the prohibition areas. Mr. Hosier is an inspector of schools in : Canada, having exchanged with a New ;... Zealand inspector, who is over there. He ; emphatically stated that his beloved city t' at home is a very much lietter city under •' prohibition than it was when the liquor traffic was in exigence. Mr. Mosier con- ' eluded by sayiitjj: ''The most ideal por- :. tion of the British Empire for the enact- : ing of the prohibitory law of prohibition - of the liquor traffic is the fair and grand _ little islands of New Zealand, which have : - responded 'so nobly and grandly to the ■ call of the Mother Land during these few weeks. I hope you will answer the call ~' of the greater King just as promptly and just a~= nobly on polling day at the > ballot box. by voting for prohibition." | CHALLENGE TO THE CHURCH. 'I want to take for my subject to- \ night. 'The Menace of the Drink Traffic [■: ; to the Church of Our Land."' said the I'■ Rev. J. W. Kcni'p. in commencing hi» Jj address. "Whrn one reckons up the a. enormous lo=.=. and counts the miseries , f " and wrongs which are wrought by strong .-'■ drink in this land, it is exceedingly diffl- |-, cult to keep a calm spirit. "The lirjunr traffic has issued a ohal- ~; lenee to the Church. It ha.s sent out I ■■"■ call of defiance to Christian men and ', _ n-omrn, and prohibition of the accursed '£ traffic will be carried by an overwhelm- , ing majority if the Church will only take up that challenge whole-heartedly nnd unitedly, and decree that it shall be done." Mr. Kemp referred to many touching instances of youn-j people whose lives had been destroyed by alcohol in many ■ lands where he had ministered. In Liver- . ' poo-1 a young man's body v,as recovered ■' from the harb-mr, and in his pocket was •■'lit a note. "A?'k not my name, it is drink ~-; which brought mc here." The coroner _■: published the statement, and 300 letters ', were received from fithers. eich a-king ;■... i£>it »k hie boy. giving an idea of thtf ■■?■ sa''re?s brought to homes by drink. "I hat? the drrnk traffic n< I hate tie '".} devil himself. No other traffic has such :"■: •l of tnsrdv and rli-asfer as the ;■ ' drink traffic. I call upnn every man and ; . wr>man in the name of ny Go.l and in ~ ; the name of humanity tc put "their vote on the ri?ht side an ' see th.it % strik" out the two top lines on the haHnt pa.per, otherwise the re-'.p'in-i' ility :s their- for every drunkard who got-5 - staaserin? drrwn the street, for every ■ crin'e that is oommitrpd. for every heart- i ach" caused by the drink and every person who ernes down to. eternity through a drunkard* tyrave. T hate it wUh all • my soul, and I propose to add fighting to my hatred. CHALLENGE ACCKP TED. "Why does not t'.ir Cl:r'-t!an ( h'.ircii '■ wake up? The drink tralTie Ilinjs out the chnlionffe. 'Can tlie (h'lTch beat v-? , Tn Cod's name we will take up the chal- '■ lenoe. "He 1 ! is too irood a place for it," said W Mr. Kemp, when ho im«tanced how the J young mnn is invited to take his first- Jdrop on the imposition that it is a stimil- ' - lant. This leads to other drops, until.:": he has dropped bis position, responsibility, fortune, friends, prospects, char- ' wter. until finally, he tnkes the last |§ drop from earth into thy hell of misery 1 and reniors-". whereas if he had not taken the first he would not have taken the | last drop. "I want it to go down on record. I ,: : don't care how many papers copy it and 45 recopy it. or where it {roes, that I am the sworn uncomprornisintr. eternal < enemy of the liquor traffic. I shall go : J. on fighting tlfr drink until my body lies > ;: in its last Testing place. With all the * concentrated energies of my soul T hate • it. I hate it because, it dims the vision, - it darkens, it deadens, and it damn- the soul. Prohibition stands supported by the common sense of the people, by the overwhelming evidence of the l>est brains of the United State- of America, by the unbiassed judgment of scientists' the world owr. by the massetl testimony of business men of all- elates, i>y the witness of doctors, magistrate-. Government cfficials, prwon superintendents, and police commissioners. '* "Get your name on the roll. ur?p your neighbour, to \ oto right, and -nerifice viHir-elf in every (los.-ihie way to rid this fair land of an evil which is'sucking the life's blood ot the i->untry an.) nati<ui. No man or woman -iiould 'dare refw-o to do hU or her duty to labour for the cvitv. May Cud rrown the day '.villi UU ble^siiiL'."