CORRESPONDENCE.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14155, 18 April 1916, Page 6

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE APPIiE INDUSTRY

(To the Editor of "The Colonist.")

| Sir.—Can it be possible that tho Government, through its agent, Mr A. H. Manure, vino and wine instructor, of Auckland, who I see by a notice in your issue of this morning, calling attention to a meeting to he. held at Stoke tonight, is going to address the fruitgrowers on. the benefits of cider making and other means of usirijc what is now waste fruit? I say, can it be possible that the Government is ■orrtivm-ons-mg a campaign for the establishment of the eider-nu'Jcii'g business at such a time as this, when the alcoholic drinK 'insinoss —for, of course, cider is an alcoholic drink—is being banned by almost every Government on the face^or the o:irc-h,':except iho Now ZonhvA Gorcrnmenti when the whole, nation, is straining every ue.rvo to i*'tnin i;.er p<<j.itiou i-.inoiig the nations, .ii;d even i:e:-j\c-rv exiytciTce, and in doing "so is re- : striVting the -sal^- of alctfliol as a me-ins to prorluro "ToiM-ru- cffifier.cy ? Suri^ly ili-fM-o mnsi- "i'.o. soivctl:inc: ',M-on.g wifcn iho Government '.vivo would -dare to ?u<j;'vest v.ifchont institutingfor it, the- establishment o\ ' uu-t-'aer fafiiitio-:; for drinking; and. I iliink no ' oiVort sljonld"ba «,pai;od to nip this; 331-j siciious 'bu<ir.c<s in the bud. 1 1 am, etc., i ~ V. A.. CARLISLE. [ Nelson, April 17th.