WAIHI UNDER NO-LICENSE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12615, 18 November 1911, Page 2

WAIHI UNDER NO-LICENSE.

WHAT THE -VICAR OF WAIHI :; rr thinks; $',%.$

LIQUOR COMING IN "IN TRUCK•i tLOADS." ■ v

A meeting of the Church of England clergy in the Waikato Archdeaconry was held at Cambridge (Auckland) in August last. According to the press, report next day "The subject of No-license was introduced byi.th6-.JRev) G.<*<W?TSm_iles (Waihr)y who' said : -t'l-ri the p_s£ he had advocated -frqft_-.the platf orni,-pulpit, irrtd elaew&ere the cause' o£f No-liorase 1n the ;Ue_bef.'.tbat-..i. ; itO wbuld "Be /-followed; -by: great'.! benefits- -,but*i ;ila|e': h^-hadr.-wart-. der'ed .whetHer No-licen«el carried. rwitlr -it all that' it <_feme]d to^'caryy, when he: Was so>' strenuo^iyiia^v-wjating- it.-'/-.-*" , ,\v * ■■::■. .; MrtcEdster^ af^Waijtuijj says, the Re\\ Srtiaileß',has frtbtrsu^pQrtp'drl^'&rlicftn'ift for; seven years past- r^be: -abqye -.utterance dbeamot ncpnyjeyj that cidje'a<£ - • *-.-..,". ->a \ ..* ., ,. •The Rev. Smailes said further, 'There \#a4 a profound feeling growing upon him that as a remedial measure No-li-cense was inadequate. If under Nolicense thereiwas' nb drhikiWg'at the open bar, there was a lot probably at the fire* ■side.'*'! ''■" i l ' '■'■ 0 'i l-„ '"\ This view of No-license' confirms the 'offixfial report pf Inspector -J&ely .(publiah-eidrin-rfn'J'^Jri last .night's .Herald) wfhich abated, ..*.£*__ \% also ._»• fact that Hcuor is hoto Keptv'ln private houses, araonga-fctam-ilie^wh.ere liquor, was qisyei-feiio^tp be Hfifitijupder Licwsfj,*' •; TheVVioar ai}d .the_f lnspe^to^/o'f-T Police r h'ttyj-**]. botli, good iopport-anities , pf „ knowing, the' .private tli^ Wailii poopl^ whereas, M*r r -iEdstfej.-. a_mits that •" he; works lOQq • feet -under the grou*h'd, arid we su^oge'he 1 [knows nO'-niore pf what is going on a ithoWand'feeteover his head than the .average -roan- does-;- but- to return -to the ;Rev. •'• Smailesli reiharksi' "He 1 could not l-say for certain,, but" considered the . quah'tity *.of ; liquor '.talten'jntp No-license, disjtricts. was/as" \greitt, if :nQt .'greater,' th^n ibefore N-o>Hcense! -became' an actual' fact.' " .;Her.admitted;a- difference' of opinion.. .A r|som&* people atUWaihi considered; Nobenefited; thp< town, others again '.didftiQt.'.; Hei fplt thgt -the ,par>iah£ucjCess of, * No^ensQ lay s in^ tl?e r fac}litfes' avith whichrliquor was , blij:aine.d/ e f yei) i after NoOicense was carriedr-lt simply ,came in in ! truck loads;" 'Hbw could it rbelothe^rwis^ wheh-jcrto-'v; quote Polico InistjSe'ctor Kiely, "the ruling thought in the [minds of' most men 'in -Waihi -is when, where,; /.pd >:hgw; *^WMl)^<m^M -blJtain. ed." The R_ . G..W. Smailes has never Rt}b]>fsly!dein_6d Jttaljjng^^ ithe'-JTrem^rlts -pr questioned thoacon*cacxiQ|.;;this report ot ll^ J Speech. ->At the^saine /Aiidican/conr m^{ the Re\^';'E.\'C. .Tv^aji^-; of Tanmaranui (a prohibition dis&icEh said 'ViiW A -district caroe under tfio-license ,thoro was no regard**- to liquor ;.it was- nrabtieally the substttu' tion of wholesale licenses for retail busi' '.ne_s."" ThesoVstatem'eHit's ar6 not "liquor lies," but the honest: and sincere opinion' ,of tempe*ratfce - i*ef ormei's like'; 'the ."Rev. Smailes (Waihi'i'r'a'nd ' unbiassed critics like ,;Insp|BC*««QV ti&tety: - arid tlio Rev. .mnby, : wliostf qpipldns ■>. lead -every thinking elector to a' determination to •end such farcical * hyprocisy by striking out the bottom line on both ballotpapers: The ' Only sensible vote.*** i