NO-LICENSE CAMPAIGN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13866, 28 September 1908, Page 6

NO-LICENSE CAMPAIGN.

The Rev. R. B. S. Hammond, Sydney Anglican missionor, who is at present touring the Dominion in the no-license cause, delivered an address at the Opera House yesterday afternoon. The theatre was crowded. Mr. Hammond strongly discountenanced statements made by the liquor party, that no-license would impoverish this country, by taking from its revenue, and contended on the other hand that the abolition of the traffic would mean a direct saving to the taxpayers. The speaker quoted the amount of drunkenness existing in Sydney, and pointed to the Children's Police Court, where, he said, 3021 children under the age of 16 years were charged in one year, 95 per cent, of them being there as the result of the intemperance of parents. In one year in Sydney 2800 women had been convicted for drunkenness, and 5830 had appeared on charges of immorality, nearly always caused through drink. "The nolicense party had three opponents in the selfish, the callous, and the ignorant, and he urged that no efforts should be spared to overthrow at the coming elections the illogical and unreasonable representations made by these sections of the community. In the evening Mr. Hammond occupied the pulpit at St. Matthew's. To-night he will deliver a lecture illustrated by limelight views at St. Sepulchre's Parish Hall.