SUNDAY DRINKING AT ASHBURTON

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 12580, 29 September 1908, Page 3

SUNDAY DRINKING AT ASHBURTON

n -iPP ce a rs in the AsMnn-ton Uua*dian of September 19th— **!*» — Kiidly (give me space in your paper, and with your .permission, to answer' the remarks of. <c Silver Pen" rcecaHhcg Sunday drinking. Wimn Mr Davjs said' in the Court, that there wis a ewott deal of drinking going on. on «a.y« ho spoke the truth. Now, sir. I r'-iL^ ye you ™y experience of Sunday i.etore thi* Court last Monday; that is the <•»". ondriJlnle ih'a't . tli*. police have 'run my boy fn on a Sunday, ft is .six years ago wnce-mj, boy came into Ashburton from rmyiAZ lo' learn his trade. H,- was then 14 years, old and he bad, never ta*t ed intoxicating drink up to then. He •* now 20 ye.a,rß .old, aud he has beci up before tftef Court twice for drunkenness. Once I -sent for the police, a,ad had a sly-grog >hbp raided on a Sunday, when my • boy >as . tiiere all the day; and bow many tihks he has been brought i ■« to me drtrak; I could not tell you — numberless. Afid all this takes place in the' No-License town . of Ashburton. Now air, I will give you my boy's own words about the sly-grog-shops of Ashburton. When he came home on Monday I asked him if he would tell me where he getb the drink from. He said, Noj but he said he could eet drink at 40 places m Ashlittrton; and mj boy ie woise on.Sun«iayd- tKan any day in t&e week. The people Tvill say far better 20 or 30 *]y grog-shops than ~ one ' licensed bar. Shame .on them, they haye not been put^to the test 'the sStoio as. I have or they would not talk like that, fpr the sly jgrog-shops are a.' d'nwe to" AsJjburton.f. Ntf- doubt the No-Liceose people thint they are doing a grand thing for the iyoumy people, and I gldry in their efforts; but they would be- d«ing a far better thing if they would' advocate No Licensfe No Li<fnor. I 'have tieen AVishmg that some. one far abler than I am ■woulfctevevteken-this-nHrtter -np.^ Thanking kindly, I am— ■:■■■- -THE? -BOT-'S ' WaTfi^R .