HALCOMBE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 140, 18 May 1925, Page 6

HALCOMBE.

There was quite a good attendance at the picture theatre, Halcomb?, when Miss Jessie Burls, of Melbourne, continued her crusade against alcohol on behalf of the Australian, and New Zealand temperance forces. Miss Burls has a very fine voice, and her subject is well arranged, the address culminating with an effort to show that a country would be more happy and prosperous without liquor. A series of slides were shown, dealing with the effect of national prohibition in the United

States. Canada, she said, had never yet gone the whole way, but when she did, ( she would not find the people going back. Signed statements of bankers, lawyers, labour men mayors und governors, chiefs •of police, the medical profession and the leaders of the Salvation Army as to the splendid results following four years pro- ' hi bit ion in America were also shown. At

1 the close of Miss Burls’s address Mr H. Grinstead, the divisional secretary, spoke ■ on the need for personal workers. A meot--1 ing of the W.G’.T.U. and friends this after- •• noon in St. Andrew’s Hall was addressed • by Miss Burls on “Women’s Influence.”