VICAR AND LIQUOR

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XVII, Issue 5883, 10 April 1920, Page 3

VICAR AND LIQUOR

VIEWS OF AN ENGLISH CLERGY-

MAN. The Rev. B. G. Bourcliier, M.A., vicar of St. Jude-on-the-Hill, Ilamp,stead Garden Suburb, London, struck a discordant note at a prohibiMon meeting, says the special representative of the Sydney Sun.

He said that no question was more 'calculated to rase feeing against the \tbrone than We attacked the .liberty of the public. lie said that he had seen rich mq:i from New York ob- ' taking drink, of which the poor wnre 'deprived. I "If I had my way," said the vicar. "1 twlould have ombllazoned on ;our hauliers, "God Save th? King and Beer!' I The Rev. B. G. Bourcliier was educated (at Queens l On the outbreak of the war he wont "j with a Red Cross unJt to Belgium, v»s 'taken prisoner, tried, and sentenced •<) 'ho shot. The soutence was commuted I and he was released, later serving as .i j Chaplain to 'the (British 'forces. He , has written severa.l books-