Temperance Alliance.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2024, 31 January 1887, Page 2

Temperance Alliance.

Mr Qlover lectured to a fair audience at the Town Hall, Greytown, on Friday night. Sir Wm Pox was to have been present also, but received a wire in the afternoon that his presence was required in Wellington owing to the illness of his wife. The lecturer gave some forcible opinions upon the Prohibition question, quoting among other instances the operation of the Maine Liquor laws, and bolding up the State of Maine in America as a pattern to all sober-minded communities. The lecturer said that fully two and a half millions of money was spent every year in New Zealand in liquor and a great part of that amount was sent out of the country, so the liquor traffic was not even reproductive. Mr Glover is a powerful advocate of the cause be has expensed and is teeming full of anecdotes and illustrations. He contended that it was not aloue the cause of teetotalism that be wished to urge, but he considered that every man and woman in the colony should be allowed to say whether the liquor traffic should be continued or prohibited within the district where they reside.