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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 16, 14 October 1907, Page 4

;'. In'l'a .letter■.'regfeiyedi.by.'.th.c'.Council'vin Mel-\ bo'arii.c bf.'jhOiQoa.i'tfnteciist and Maewo Inter-. dononiinatidntir-Evannelicar'Jlissioiiy Mr.'T. 'J. 'I'urclvV Is-, 'lAniPof ''Olmj' states' 'thafc'iljicit ■tracling , mi": the •islands - if> 'one .of .the p;i;ea;tcst...hindrancca ; to. mission".work. Trailers- inako.,about;..2oo.':pdr, 'cifntr::profittoilt;;ofrv'thev sale-, toi-;intoxicants -to, tho.riatjvcsc.who/.dp'.liot..know J)'pjf..tQ.nso.'thoni** :'i'hero,lafo-'WD.res:,'of, cases.sojcCWqckly,,'.and 'thos>e ; wno...liayb;partjcipated in .drinking, (lance ■ iind yell '.■al'mps.ti'Vtho -wliblo ' Jw'slit .through. iS6jh"oV'th'i |, e.e niVAyi','Jn.t' 'n. plfic'o ",'.callcd ,; ; iValalia,': two'• natiyes' , hiive - clicd'.'f.i om' iirj urics' ■fcceiycd.'in.tv'drunkWh-'fißh't'/ ■■■;:.■. ; :'". , . Mr Jjistico. jibdges, 'of-Ticto'ria. in "a, reiiiarkabjo./lcttbr t0. , , an'' , cvxangpHst;-!iij' Melbourne,: upon" nineteen years 1 and WpeHcnce'4n t'liw Criniiiial'.a'h'd-'lliftirca 1 Court. T'caK'rfpfa't'what ■l | ;Eaid"puliliety some years 'ajo,-' tliftt i.(Jfirik? ; is; ;oiiiliof ; <llrectly'. or-indircc'tly .'responsible- for'-inbrc 'crimOj more.! sin;irmqro ■(lome'stic"misery,-'than- all other.-, causes put itogothorJ-.rlt;;is.'.app|i]Jins■ to note number,: flf i crimes; tl\at,j n.re., : tr,aqeao(q tq.;iarink,.-and more '..Rivif iil-to.sit.in.,α-divbrceicpuii and.Vhwir.'; 1 detailed and utter'd'esfrnotion , of home.'life.that rpsu.lttf liquors. I cannot say, for I-''d6'"ribt'' KHot?;' , irhcther Victoria is worse than other placbs; : but if it is not'i.therp,;would be very' littl6 xrirasiajid;-very little poverty in the world lit , this cause werq removed. As physical eharae--;te'r.!is':-forntcd ' : in -early; li(e,-..'so'',is'.':s'elf j ; controli' Jtl , .is.easy v,tohform-:ai.goodVhahitii.it is,..verjt hard.-.to Tcsisia bud ono onco formed." ,; ..