PROHIBITION CANT

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10211, 22 February 1919, Page 8

PROHIBITION CANT

(To tho Ediltor "N.Z. Times.'O Sir .—Oar prohibitionist friends aro asking for further poVer until a new to uuKing tl.is community more-moral, more sober, monii virtuous, etc. etc. INow, ™"t 1 *.M tihat Acts of Parlujnwnt hare never jet,.had this effect on any community, may I be pardoned for askinT why the ppwers already posted .ire not exercised with this eaid in view. For instance, tlao sellinK of intoxicants on Sundays ha» long beem an offence, vet everyone knows ,t is possible to ootain these at a -srory considerable number of hotels on feat day. Again, I. -ivo m premises in Upper -Willis etreet (between two churphes): on the upper side is u vacant section, the gate ol whicii U ■■enorally opejri. This is a depository for"all kinds of refuse. At the, moment of writing old raattrasses, clolhmK, and horse manure may be seen in abundance. (1 drew tha c Minull's attention to this during tho recant epidemic.) fioUriug was done, howwer. Children play here, lighting fires at times, and it is the resort of drunks and their paramours at times. On the other side of this Mook, and- within a dozen yards of where I write, fowls are? kept, and j-otuir roosters are crowing tibjoir worst; and this has been goinir on flor years, notwithstanding the fact that the council's attention has been eal)»rl to it. Now, sir, what jruar. an too have we that if further powers are •wureci tlue law will bs any better administered ? • _ J. B. HULBERT. 18u .Willis 6i{acoet.