DRINKING BY WOMEN IN AUCK-LAND.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14156, 7 March 1908, Page 14

DRINKING BY WOMEN IN AUCKLAND.

Sir,—A great fuss is being made about a few women being found drinking in the Auckland hotels. If it is good for tho men to drink.in hotels without their wives knowing, why is it not good for women to do the same without their husbands knowing? There is no mention in the telegram that these women were drunk. Apparently they could perform that glorious feat of "taking it or leaving it alone," but, like tho men, they always elected to "take it." Why, I nek, as a woman and as a mother in this town, is it eo- much more a dreadful thing- for a woman to go and have her moderate drink ill a hotel than it is for a man to go and do the samo thing? Yet you head the telegram " Shocking Stato of Affairs." The fact is that the men who dp it know what a degrading thing it is, and do not want their wive.? to start on the downward track they are treading so steadily. They are > - ery anxious to keep their vices to themselves. I hope that this letter will show any moderate drinking man who reads it arid who votes for' license in order io " retain his liberty " to have his moderate drink what an utter fraud ho is unless he is prepared to grant his wifo the same liberty. The holv horror of the men at. seeing their wives doing what they fight for the right to do, as though it were their most precious possession, is the most amusing thing I have 6een for many a long day. -Vote-the'whole thing out and stop it from both men and women alike, 'say.l. If it is bad, it is bad for both; if it is good, it is good for both.—l am, etc., • A Dunedix Mother.