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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 40, 15 August 1918, Page 8

It was moved at the ■ Christcmirch Presbytery meeting this week (reports ■the Christchurch Sun) that sympathy, be expressed with the National Efficiency Prohibition campaign, and that the Presbytery urge all within its district to sign the petition. After the motion had been seconded, the Bey. J. Dickson said that he was not in favour of the motion, not because he was unsympathetic with the Prohibition campaign, but it would mean that the ministers endorsed the granting of compensation to the Trade. Even if the petition were successfully presented, there was no guarantee that the legislation would bo carried. No Parliament could commit another to such a measure. The temperance people would be well advised to have the- necessary legislation passed first. If the present scheme were not successfnl, State control would be floated, .and it would be said that the ministers bad endorsed compensation. The motion was carried.

Although systematic dragging of the Halswoll Biver is still being carried out, there is as yet no trace from any quarter of Miss Gladys Jull, the schoolteacher who has been missing for a fortnight.

At the quarterly meeting of the Miramar Volunteer Fire. Brigade held last night, it was decided to give three months' notice of intention to resign at the end of the financial year (November).,.