PROHIBITION

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 69, 18 September 1925, Page 9

PROHIBITION

';/■ '■■ ADDRESS BY MRS. COWIE,

Mrs. Harrison/Lee. Cowie delivered:an address on Prohibition, in ;the Concert Chamber of the Town Hall last .evening. !: •■■";■ ■--..■■::•.■ ;r;-;..v••' ' ■■■:;■ "'■■■ '■■ " : /The Rev. ,F. E. Harry, president of the .Wellington-area of the New Zealand Alliance, occupied - the chair, and in a brief introductory address; alludtd to the excellent worK done . by' Mrs. Cowie in.Australia, r--:

After stating that Prohibition was' essentially a youiig people's question, Mrs. Harrison ■^Lee Gowie: gave a description of her trip undertaken last year to study, the conditions relating to the liquor question in America.and England. The .prosperity in America under Prohibition,:said the 'speaker,, was' re-, markable, and the fact which had par-; ticularly impressed her was the harmony in v which the. mixed populations lived,, a -result which could fairly be largely ;put' down- to Prohibition. Visits. to the poorer quarters of some of the large 'cities'.- conyinced' her that Prohibition at its worst was better than License at its best. Mrs. Cowie described the position'in England, where, notwithstanding the deplorable conditions brought about by unemployment, the drink bill was still enormous. In moving terms, the speaker described conditions in some of the slum areas of the citiea,,,and,appealed to the young people of the country to band themselves together to; prevent the diversion of money from' the. provision of necessaries to the purchase of :'drink?' The speaker concluded with an -eloquent appeal -to the voters to assist Prohibition, which, it was urged/ would mean diverting the amount sperit'in drink; for the stimulation of trade arid the welfare of the people. -„...'. ■'•'.-•.';' '. ■-. . '