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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 86, 8 October 1935, Page 17

E. Johnston and Co., auctionGers, will sell household furnishings at their mart, 8 Willeston Street, at 1 p.m. tomorrow. REV. COURTENAY C. WEEKS GIVES EVIDENCE. . The Rev. Courtenay C. Weeks is aj Clerk in Holy Orders, and was at one time Vicar of St. Hilda, Crofton. Park, London. He resigned his living to devote his whole time to preaching and lecturing in the great public .schools like Eton and Harrow, arid also the universities and training colleges throughout Great Britain and Ireland. "He is also a medical man, and served as a surgeon in the Great War. He is a director of the National Temperance League, and gave evidence on behalf of the organised temperance forces of England and Wales before the Royal Commission on Licensing. He is frequently quoted in "prohibition" propaganda. • : ■•.-. .■]'■ Giving evidence before, the Royal Commission, he was asked the following question: ."Do you wish to limit, by legislation, the consumption of alcohol to commercial and medicinal purposes?" His reply was: "If by your question you mean, do I advocate prohibition, the answer is no." There are still some people who fail to sec the difference between temperance and prohibition. The great majority of us are temperate people, and the' demand for prohibition is now largely confined to the fanatical section of the community,, to whom temperance is unknown,—Advt, _ ••— —~