ST. MARY'S SOCIETY.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14223, 14 June 1910, Page 5

ST. MARY'S SOCIETY.

ATJi) UN NO-LICENSE. Some thirty members of St. Mary's Society took part in an interesting debate lust ovening, oil tho 110-liceaao question, when important arguments were brought to bear, during the course of the discussion. Mr I'% J. JJiuin presided, j Rev. Mr Curnoiv said that liis motion was that no-license was a benelH |to the community. They all knew ; that drunkenness was a great evil in ) Aew Zealand—he could tell of many j eases where it had broken up homes. I ul a ?i j 'gM-thinkmg men.- Thoy had 110I license piece-meal in New Zealand and , fc was an undoubted fact—to take ono I i icc u ""-license had been of .p. c benefit to Invercargill though n,W S WG w f' r . d ?P° ts . on the boundiiimsßlf lii !1 Invercargill Jnmselt and there was ono thing conv"ll l nf lKr ' t- drunken loafer , so prej . lent m ( iniaru, was absent. He S-' turdT" r e Sont!lol 'n city on a tuid.ij , and for every twenty drunkn men m Tiniaru there was only one i» luverciirnill. Sly-grog selling did I not cause nearly the amount of drunkenness ,« the open bar with its everwitr i dn te -'" PtMfio ' 1 /- nncl 1,0 Lpld soon d^ luni ™. the evil would tln +n ♦ d ° n ° nW °y With - t W nTt'f r'?, 1 W0 "! d ho removed from license V i K o7lf,r "tion. Nonsc, it was Ins contention wa<; +i. e only reasonable scheme for ' right ® fie TOt condition of nfTni,-? nnd ~nsl Je\co d,rnr " n rnsos "f drunkeni i • ™ among vonnrr m"en as file-®-7 ,1" Timnrn-wonld soonbe n twl tV a<l bo - 0 '? !lr£ ? wd f 'hat ,[! * commercial side to eoni'Afl effen- ™- ,:( ' eT ' s . 0 ™>t had a T ' 0,1 nr, . v district—Tnvercargill been Tt ? r0 Is' 1 s 'T r ' ws ts } n n it had ever been J t ,^ on Rni{? of)mam " d( 7! f lwt lind been deader still nndcr license, r.vfl Ash burton, ho held, arl not been affected. He had pleas! "re in moving that the meeting agree at no-hcense was a benefit to tho coinmnnitr.

Mr Appl.eenrtl!. who held that no™e + r? W ? nt V npfit n ' immunity, f nr + , • .^ a '' three reasons for taking tins Rifle (1) Tt had not n %o\ V arty +WJ«t ft would . (._) It, hnd worso evils; Jyi?inr rlwit, nnd sly-prog soiling; (3) nnrl drink wns a. necessary ev,l. Because tlioy tonic drinlc nwaVv they would not kill the habit, and they should not shirk the responsibility by in*x it up. Tii Ashbnrton had W t , tried for 9 vonrs, nnd at tho present time one could go round, and 1! ln , 1,10 mnjority of the baclcya.rds often dozens of empty bottles that' surely did not show tliat, the evil had men mimipml. Tnstend of -pentrnlisnitr drink m the hotels. no-license had taken it into the homos where it barf absolutely no right to be. Drink came into the town all the same, and the usual keg parties followed, where the younger follows were soon badgered into having drink. Tile sporting clubs celebrate! their wins, and drowned their los«cs nil tho same, but tliero was more secrecy about it. Tho speaker backed up his "arguments with numerous statistics, and the recital of eases that had come under his notice. He did not think that no-license imI proved the morals of a town, in fact,. hj" held that the reverse was the ease. The slv'-oro'j; houses, where they fZiiYQ one poison, were worse than licensed houses, which were under police supervision. Drink was a necessary evilit taught moderation, and it taugM them to pitv the fallen. What was the remedy for over-indulgence P Counter attractions formed a. sure nnd he could rewmmend this Ride of the question to no-license agitators. Mr TT. S. Oahiteg Beconded Mr Clip, now .and referred to the shouting hnliit as the nrimary eanso of so mnoH drinking, and said that it was the inevitable accompaniment of the openbar.

J. P. f\ TVnTslie. RpooTi<7e<s Mr : Applerrnrt.Vs _ siYlp, nnd spoke rttrongly on +,7io rnicstiiin. No-lirp-nsn 7mr? many attendant prils,—it hnd oft<*n TwmgM) drink into homes where it hnd never heen s«pn in times of license. and lie trusfjvT thnt there would never he do>ninion option. Rpvpt- ;1 1 others spoke on the qnostioii. flip sneakers for the most ptirt innkinjr in reiinrd to districts where nn-lirpnpp i<s sit- nrpspnt niid the lenders afterwards repTpd. Th« motion wns put and enrried hr 13 vnfno f n ~ votes of thrrnks heinn; nonnrdrd to n{o lenders on the motion of the T?pv. P. T. Adams.