Temperance Meeting at Carterton.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1797, 19 February 1886, Page 2

Temperance Meeting at Carterton.

A meeting of those interested in the Temperance cause was held at the Carterton Public Hall on Wednesday night. The Itev ,1. Wald was voted to the chair and opened the proceedings by making a speech suitable to the occasion.

The Hev Mr Buttle, of Mastertou, also addressed the meeting at some length expounding on the evils of the liquor traffic. He said the question of temperance was now the first question in the laud, aud it was the duty of all those who desired to see this dire evil removed from us, to do everything we could to discountenance the sale of alcohol, aud that they would not rest satisfied until it was i,laced iu its proper place, behind the counter ef :iui chemist, and labelled •* Poison.” He hoped the present contest would result in the temperance party being triumphant. The Hev Mr Ward in bis address said the piinoiple at stake in the elections on Saturday was this. Are the public houses iu this district to be kept open after ten o’clock at night? it is not a matter as to who are the best men, or m to likei and dislikes, bat are our husbands and sons, and friends to have opportunities to drink In hotels up till 11 o'clock at night, instead of ten, as at present ? It was unfair to the publican's employees that they should have to work an extra hour. He repeated that the question was, Are the public-house licensing hours to be extended until 11 o’clock ? That was what (he ratepayers were called upon to decide. He would ask those in the meeting to signify, by bolding up their baud, whether or not the/ desired to see the licenses extended. 0 a the vote being taken, every hand (ssye the local paper) was held dp in favor of ten o’clock hoc uses, amid applause.