WOMEN AND INTEMPERANCE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13662, 28 March 1908, Page 2

WOMEN AND INTEMPERANCE.

' . W^NGANU^ March. 28. , , Reporting on the question raised , by the New Zealand Alliance as to whether drilling among .'woraexi has attained ahy, magnitude .fn various diswicts of . th6 f Dominioii, %he local, police, in a statethent to the Wanganui Licensing Committee, atato that there [are only a few women- of an unfortunate class who visit some hotels here and get drink. Apparently, the respectable .women of the town do not yisit hotels for' the purpose of drinking. Hotelkeepers 111 \yanganui have made it a rule that ho female will be served with liquor except at a public bar, which means prohibition to any I women who do not belong, to a disreputable class. ' '