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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14607, 17 May 1918, Page 6

'■;.'. \ waste/ : : : .'/..■■ (To ttie. fiditot; of the:ftetaid f ) ""\. )■ ' •Sii'jr— l have, oh two dr ihree opcasion»i during the, present dreadf ul Waf, .€alle4 the attention of your readers to. "ihfy sinfullj extravagant waste going-, on In our. midst. A few days ago an Enclis^ icable stated. the women of England could save twenty millijons m clothing alone. An Australian! cable brought tw the, news, of one -of their' leading horse owilels withdrawing from * racing for. the period of the war. Tbeii m your Tuesday's impression we havb . the delivei'ance of our sane Chief. JMtivc at Kew Plymouth on the- present J war position, which ought to caus^nis', to think. Sii 1 , as a people Are 1 seem -to have lost all, sense of shame or the fii-, . ness ' of things; we are perpetratitig Waste, inefficiency, 'crime and disease by j our drinking" liabitß. :. We have , niad - orowds. 'shouting themselves , hoarse on > our raoecourises. We have' fashiohable ciwrds attending theatres and picture , houses, and all the time our . dear ■ ones , are groaniiig, bleeding, atld dying m , the trenches'.- This state of things is { simply shameful. If we followed the -\ lead) of Canada m the' matter of liqudr alone, we might save : say six- millions $ a year, and England three hundred mil- ; lions, \rith' increased efficiency, .better-' health, and more respect for ourselves, and 1 greater certainty of winning the^ war. Sir, are we mail' or dotty-^which ?'. , I am, etc, -'-.^y- SANITY. J