CORRESPONDENCE CONDENSED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13835, 23 February 1907, Page 7

CORRESPONDENCE CONDENSED

A. C. Robertson enumerates a number of instances of physical and moral wreckago through over-indulgence in drink, and asks if these and a host of other deplorable instances are not the fruits of wild, extravagant, and torrential preaching of continuance of drink selling? And if so, is it not tho duty of every man, woman and child in all oonscicnco to do their utmost to close the traffic?

" High Timo to Speak Out" says tho liquor traffio is totally evil.' leaving 110 shred of good at all, and is chiefly the parent of tho dire immorality of which wo hear so much from time to lime from tho aud magistrates of this and other countries beforo whom the sad products of

the drink traffio appear in the shape of thousands of our poor fellow-men ruined by ihis diro blight of a national curse. This highly immoral traffic will not stand the light of day. It is "a pestilenco that walkcth •in darkness" and sweeps on blighting 1 the nation with dire moral leprosy.

"Manuka." again writes on the subject of public convanienees, and says the apathy of tlio corporation in this matter should not bo further tolerated. Now that Dr Mason is on ;i visit to Dunedin, our correspondent thinks it is his duty, as chief of the Health Department, to look round, see what is necessary, and waken up an unsympathetic council to a senso of its responsibilities.