AN EXPLANATION.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—Let me ask you to correct a serious error in your notice of the annual meeting of the Prohibition League. The account makes me to say that the volunteer movement is a nursery foi drunkenness. This statement, if I had made it, would have been foolish and untrue, and it is almost needless to say, I made no such assertion. In seconding the adoption of the report, I refered to the hope it had expressed that the canteen would be abolished at volunteer encampments, and after alluding to one or two painful case 3of lads, fresh from Sunday-schools, being drunk during oamp life, I ventured to say that the canteen in volunteer camps is a nursery for drunkenness. To the volunteer movement I made no reference, and I trust that this explanation will serve to allay the just indignation of many of our civil soldiers at the statement imputed to me.l am, oto, H. Scott. Auckland, November 28. 1900.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 11542, 29 November 1900, Page 6
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