DRUNKENNESS IN WANGANUI

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12881, 13 May 1913, Page 8

DRUNKENNESS IN WANGANUI

(To the Editor.) Sir,—Following ,up the correspondenoe xipon, this subject/ "A Love rof Fairness" m>akes"out an lamusing case. This gentleman is apparently such a. ohe as is often' to b© found ready to throw', ©old water upon any assertion of a -wirbttg-beiing peirpe-truted, while posingl as the supporter of a cause .complaining" agaimst it. iSuch are lalways ready to call for ." fairness" in theso niattefs when their tendencies are decidedly on one side, and there is no need for 'an explanation as to what sid>9 I meaih. "A.L.0.F.5." may be a Nolicense man, but he is ia bright and sliiiniing light in/its cause. .Wanganui is a dedideclly drunken community, not-w-ithstanding "A.L.O.F.'s" .special in-ioz-mation to the contrary- He rarely sees dirunkeu man -in the Aveniie, as if' that, was the place to see them excepton aT Saturday night. If heNyante to sco them let him go into the parks and cm. the river foreshore, and provided tho weather ds salubripxis for la sunbath he will see them there. But dioes he want to se-e them1 and does -he :read the newspaper reports regarding fl drunks" X Poos. lio "evea* notice the; .'.numbers of young onen andliold filing in and out of the public-houses of a Saturday :'. night, out lovely comfort ■* e-rs to their WfivcsS and'inothers> many by their appearance proving ;that liquor Lad been supplied' to them in !ii, quantity sufficient for them to make themselves a.nnoyanoee to any .respectable nieu: and wometi they come in c6ritact: ■'tt^th on their .wav1 honie. Nbj '•' A.L.0.F.," does not need' the'db^' taming" of 'a .prohibition: order-to eriablb" one to see the- : eyils of' the liquoa* fcnafßc in Wangaiiui. . With the_ growing population ;unless tho traffic is. kept i in hand'pur'f.air:y^ ;: become, a^rty- one%ideod..; (SASLr,^.F;" i looks ■ through Gpectacles of- '■& which suife h'ini, cv oolour ,Tv:b4<Jtt-^^y be or ( not the popular one—-alnSjrig" -a ; certain class. So niii<:h r for his letter. I trust upon, the next occasion he sets 1 out to write vtwon the subject he will previously have analysed his vision of "fairness;" and also that if he .wishes to express.a true opinion he will study the matter more closely than it ia^ery evident he has. If " A.L.0.F."- is in. favour of the No-lioense cause I cannot imagine him writing as ho* has ddne^—l am. etc<, .

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