"NIMBUS" REPLIES.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9896, 24 January 1895, Page 3

"NIMBUS" REPLIES.

Sis,— l expected Mr Hill would reply to my letter, and that Is the reason 1 did not reply to "Charon" before this time. With yonr permission I will reply to both. "Charon says, <k There are 700 members In the elnb. and I will take my chance of pot lnok with them) even if a few of us

reserve our. threepences to moisten on Clay, In preference bo popping it away 1 the BOttl insurance feooietles." I don' .. object to bis ddlnfc that, and I can asanr ■" ■■' Uharon " that 111 had tbp power to kee him from having a glass of spirits or bee Ob a Sunday I wonld not prevent him. : Wn plaased to learn that, the Wbrkloi hg^aen'a Clnb baa a daly qualified Charon ti JHBHBKl 6 .pp'embers aorOßs the footpatl Hlß^Hf^ surface of the.earth has an ap j^^H^W rotary ..and zig-zag motion HHHIr' 1 "' 83 ? 8 there is ijo gambling li HOHr^ Mow, it two men play cards, o: HflHv Jlce lii .a Uceaaed hotel for drinks HflßTa eye of ttie law thst is gamblinir. I BBdii the same tblDg in the W.M.C H^V S not gambling, I tell "Charon 1 IBV" it is gambling, and members conic |HB proseented for playing for drinks. St HYCharon's" statement that gambling h allowed is not correct. The Premiei H/»I<1 he woald like to see more lnstituHRModb of a similar kind in the colony. I Hfor one hope that next session Parliament Vwlll pass an Act that all cinbs that do W not provide accommodation for boarders ¥ shall pay an ananal license fee of not lens than £60. It is unfair to hotelkeepers, who ate under - very heavy expenses, and who are not allowed to open on Sundays, while dabs can keep open all day if the committee allow it, In last Monday's HERALD Mr Hill says, •' ' Nimbus ' seems to think my proposal a strange one." I mnsbconiess I read bis second letter with surprise and regret. Mr Hill says, "Education, and in a large measure religion, are supported by meanß of taxes on wines, spirits, and tobacej. The profits made In the Working Men's Clnb are the profits diverted from the pockets of the hotel keepers" Does Mr Hill mean that so long as the education of the few is secured by the degradation of the many that it is right ? I hope not I As Mi Hill will very likely join the Club, I will predict that before three months he will find my statements S correct. Juet a word in reply to "A ■ Member." He says : " The main objeot I of each committee has always been to ■ discourage Intemperance," and that the ■committee have " bad to suspend memHben from the privileges ot the bar. And ■from the tone of hia letter I should take ■•Nimbus" to be one of the nnfortnnate HW* 8 who is not allowed to enpy bis been 1 ' "A Member " is quite Ht<nor> I can get beer or spirits anyHjhere if 1 have the money. In the club Hff* 1 * get it on tick. I have nothing to do HV Q " Anti Guzzle." I don't know who Hff writer Is. When I wrote my first It was to point out to Mr Hill that jj^ft Working Men's Clnb is not thought a place for young men, and I ■By add, for a large number ot HMi c Q eD - It was from no deelra to show HJBclub np, as some think. If I have HH anything that Is not true it haßnot HjH^ one wilfully. But I still maintain HIH working men's clubs all over the Hffiuentt desirable places for young ■HJB nd that instead of being a blessing HHBce, in many instances, a curse to the BHH 8 man.— l am, &c, HHB Nimbus. HH\ < Mer the otronnißtances we Insert the HHkC°! "Nlmbns," but herewith postBHH °* Ofle *kia correspondence. — Ed.