THE KING'S EXAMPLE.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15268, 3 May 1915, Page 9

THE KING'S EXAMPLE.

♦ I TO THE EDITOR Ol' "TIIE PRKSS." '■ Sir, —Under tho Leading of "Australia To-day,"' you publish in rour issue of current date a letter from your "Own Correspondent," in •which reference is made to tho King's example of abstinence from tho u&o of alpoholio liquors. Tho allusion is brought in for th c purpose of calling attention to tlio fact that tho King's "representatives in gubernatorial office, in Australia are setting exhilarating examples in soldierly doiugs." According to a cablegram published in your Christchurch coiut'in- ; porarics yesterday, but which for some oauso did not appr.ar in your own columns, tho Kind's example is moro J closely copied by tho high officials re- j ferrod to than would appear from tho j letter of your Sydney corrcsiwndent. f iVs a matter of gcncsal interest to your readers, may T ask you to publish tho cablegram, which is us follows:— "Sydney, April 28.—The GovernorGoneraJL Sir U. C. Muuro-Fersaisou, and all tho Stat c Governors, are following tho King as regards liquor."—■ Yours, etc., ■\V. J. AVILLIA.MS. April 30th. I'Tho oablccram referred to anooarod in "Tlie Press' , on the same clay as in our contemporaries. Our correspondent will find it iti the second column of page 7, headed in largt. typo, "Tlie King's Example." Sonic months ago, tho "Vanguard," of which our correspondent is Editor, accused "'Tho Press," with j"st as little foundation as on tho present occasion, of suppressing a cablo message regarding tlv.' prohibition of vodka in Russia. , May wo suggest to our reverend correspondent the propriety of exorcising a littlo more caro before making these unoharitablo accusations? —Ed. "Tho Press/]