PROHIBITION CAMPAIGN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18198, 18 September 1922, Page 9

PROHIBITION CAMPAIGN.

DR. MARY ARMOR'S VIEWS. LECTURES IN AUCKLAND. The address given yesterday afternoon by Dr. Mary Harris Armor, in the interests of prohibition, attracted to the Town Hall an audience which completely filled hall and galleries, many scores of people having to content themselves with standing place in the aisles. Half an hour's community singing preceded the address, the leader being Mr. R. T. Sando. The Mayoress, Mrs. J. H. Gunson, presided. Dr. Armor, who was greeted with loud applause, proved herself a rapid and experienced platform speaker, with a seemingly inexhaustible flow of words at her command. She is an able exponent of the discursive and somewhat emotional type of oratory that has won such popularity in the United States. Taking as her subject, " Health, Wealth, and Prosperity," she dealt with tho question of prohibition from the standpoint of actual experience of its effects on the life of the people of the United States, as seen by one who had lived under every phase of liquor traffic and control. Overcrowding at Everybody's Picture Theatre, at which Dr. Armor's evening meeting was arranged to take place, necessitated a transfer to the Town Hall at the last moment. Mr. W. J. Holdsworth presided over a fairly large attendance. " The Irrepressible Conflict," was the subject taken by Dr. Armor, who applied the title to the prohibition movement. She declared that the fight against the liquor traffic in New Zealand was not merely a local skirmish, but part of a world-wide battle. A great portion of her remarks was directed to inspiring confidence in hor audience of the success of the coming campaign for prohibition, a result which she maintained was assured, judging by what she had seen and heard in New Zealand. The experiment had been a success in the United States, and should be a greater success with the unmixed population and law-abiding people of New Zealand. Dr. Armor will address another meeting at the Town Hall this evening, when she will speak on " The Four Bars." On Thursday afternoon, she will give an address at tho Women's Club on " Club Lifo in America."