THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 146, 21 June 1924, Page 13

THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC

TRADE CONDEMNED,

It was Heithes Iho brewer, the publican, nor the distiller that ho disliked, declared Captain Gipsy Pat Smith last night in his address upon the liquor traffic, so much as the way in which they made their living. If the Churches wera united on the point the traffic would cease in twelvo months. He honestly believed that the liquor traffic was wrong because of its finished product. Captain Smith condemned the trade in intoxicating liquor, "lock, stock, and barrel." The only cure, he believed In was surgery—cnttjng the thing off entirely. The liquor traffio, he said, Had no merits; it destroyed the individual, corrupted the community, and debased civilisation.

On Sunday afternoon, at 3 o'clock, inthe Town Hall Capt. Gipsy Pat Smith will address men and boys only, and at 8.15 p.m., he will speak to another public meeting. On Monday evening, at 7.30, he will speak on his first sermon at the Wesjey Church, Taranaki street.