LECTURE ON NO-LICENSE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 284, 25 August 1908, Page 7

LECTURE ON NO-LICENSE.

- An address on "Man-making verses Money- '' making" was delivered by Miss Anderson ; Hughos at the Vivian Street Baptist Church last evening, tho Rev.-J. Dawson occupying , the chair. Miss Hughes said that in the "liquor-ridden" city of Auckland thoy had got a majority in favour of No-Licouße, but she romombered. the or -four' elections ago—wlion- the liquor party • obituary notices of the temperance .patty, saying that the "draried prohibition party is dead," but thoy wero mistaken'.. This question was the' greatest national question of tlio day. At tlio last eleotiori 200,000 people voted for No-Licenso, most "of whom wore - total abstainers. Last year nearly three and a half million pounds were spent m liquor, and'alio asked, whore was tlio return? She" quoted Ashburton cases, told to her by a Justico of the Peace, in which families had been saved by the carrying of;, 1 No-iiconsei 'She also-mado': investigations. . in''Oltitba^iiVid- although sho wa's.l for) somemonths [in No-Licenso districts shC'had uovor seen! al'drfinken'.man. .'She alSß"gavo .tlib case of man, who boarded a tram at Christchurch,.* bound fora' suburb. Ho was ovorr carried, and' the! guard thought ho' would . take Alio man right on 'to Ashburton and givo i tho people.' a : treat. So thero was a drunken man actually in Ashburton. Ilia teninoranco peoplo wero tho really patriotic people,i for ...they• wcro making tremendous^. sacrifice?.'' -, - - v,