"SHAM SINS."

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 162, 10 July 1924, Page 5

"SHAM SINS."

BISHOP ON PROHIBITION.

A SPIRITED ATTACK.

LONDON, July 9.

The House of Lords, by 166 votes to 50, defeated the Bishop of Oxford's Popular Control of Liquor Bill on the motion for the second reading. The measure proposed to give ratepayers the choice of voting no change, public control, or prohibition.

Lord Parmoor fLord President of the Council) said the Government would support the second reading motion in order that the bill might be referred to the Standing Committee.

The Primate and all the bishons supported the bill except the Bishop of Durham, who created a sensation by his vehement attack on the bill on the ground that it enshrined "tho. thoroughly unsound principle of nrohibition," and treated the trade unfairly in exacting compensation by a method which was hypocritical. It was, ho said, disguised confiscation.

Attacking his fellow bi?hops, the speaker warned tlie <"hureh against the da" _ er of creatine sham sins.

The Bishon of Dnrhnm's vigorous outburst moved the Conservative nonrs tn unwonted and enthusiastic aririlnuse.

The Bishon of St. Albans Ho paid that as Ion" aa the Ri"ht Rev. Hpnsley Henson. Bishop of Durham. Graced the benches, episcopal unity would be imposs'blp.— (A. and N.Z.)