THE OTAHUHU DEMONSTRATION.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20870, 9 November 1929, Page 11

THE OTAHUHU DEMONSTRATION.

TO THE EDITOB. Sir, —There is an old saying that " Money will make the mare to ro," and reforms are always difficult of attainment because certain pocker.s may Buffer. We are told that_ trade in alcoholic liquors must j?o on since otherwise some people would, be put out of work. With constant new inventions some trades are being displaced every year. What about livery stables, harnessmakers, and blacksmiths? The,motor car has displaced most of them. Woman decided to have short hair. Was there an outcry from hairpin factories? The manufacturers of hairpins had to go into another line of trade. Our papers report many accidents and court cases throuch drunkenness, lien are continually before the Bench for car driving while in a state of intoxication, and yet our Government grants a license for yet another brewery —on a main highway of all places. We send men to Parliament to amend and improve our laws, yet such anomalies as tli.it can take place. It is time our women went back to the old standard

of a crusade for righteousness. All honour to those unselfish women who set such an example at.Otahuhu! If men will not consider that children are more important than cheques, and manhood than money, let the women do as they did of old, band together, and pray God to touch thp hearts of those who are indifferent to the tragedy of fellow men and women, not to mention little children. —I am, etc.. Inasmuch. Gore, November 7.