For WOMEN Only.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLI, Issue 9, 26 August 1908, Page 38

For WOMEN Only.

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THE LOCAL OPTION POLL INTERESTS YOU.

Are Nursing Mothers to be deprived of Stout? Dr. Bakewell urges the necessity of nursing mothers taking three half-pints of stout daily.— Vide “ Auckland Star."

UNDER NOLICENSE IN INVERCARGILL, CRIME HAS INCREASED 13 PER CENT. See Official Records.

Failure of No-License in Invercargill.— Official Police Court Records.— Increase of Crime. CRIMINAL OFFENCES— AFFILIATION— LUNACY SI.Y-GROG CONVICTIONS— ASSAULTNm I leense 1907-8 338 License, 1905-6 13 License, 1905-6 13 License. 1005 6 1 License, 190. J-6 ... 16 No- 1 ieense' 1006 7 382 No License, 1906-7 13 No License, 1906-7 lit No-License, 1006-7 0 No-License, 1906-7 8 i ieense l<ios-6 ’ ' 368 No-License, 1907-8 21 No-License, 1907-8 21 No-License, 1907-8 3 No-License, 190.-8 4 PRO< I HING LIQUOR WHILE DRUNKENNESS— PROH IBITION ORDERS— PROHIBITED— THEFT- INDECENCY— Iicense 1905-6 .... 145 License, 1905-6 66 License. 1005-6 3 License. 1905-6 21 License. HHJo-6 . 2 No I ieense 1006-7’ ’ . 113 No-License, 1006-7 51 No License, 1806-7 13 No-License. 1906-7 41 No License. 1906-7 1 No-License, 1907-8...’. 86 No-License, 1907-8 43 No-License, 1907-8 10 No-License. 1907-8 ...„ 71 _ No-License. 190<-8 4 INDECENT LANGUAGE— License. 1905 6 12 No-License, 1906-7 12 No-License, 1907-8 «

m ! Vote that the Number of Licenses Continue. Records of Crime in Ashburton STRIKE OUT THE LAST ~ , n , , . „ . riII „ [ Vote that Licenses beßedueedr under No-License Confirm InverFWO LINES THUS: — _ , I Vote that No Liconooo be Granted. cargilrs Experience of Increase.

GENERAL BOOTH says:—“lt is no use attempting prohibition when the majority wish to drink.” General Booth believes in moral suasion. Is it not better that a man should openly enter a elean, well-regulated hotel (which is always under police supervision) where he can get a glass of good wholesome beer, than that he should steal round the corner into a sly grog den where he probably obtains only raw spirits of a most harmful character, and where the surroundings are immoral and degrading? No intelligent man or woman who has the moral and financial welfare of Auckland at heart can vote for No-License. NO=LICENSE A FAILURE. MR. GEO. HARNETT, Manager of the British rootball Team, said (vide “Auckland Star,” 25th July, 1908): “I saw drunken men in Invercargill (No-License) at 9 in the morning, and later in the evening I saw more drunken men in Invercargill than I have seen in any other city of the Dominion. This seems to show that where there is No-License liquor can be obtaintd, and as it has to be obtained on the sly, it is doubtless of the worst description. From undoubted sources I learnt that drinking in private houses down there was daily on the increase. This leads to the same evil as the grocers’ licenses co in England. Personally, I may say that I have always taken a glass of beer, but in strict moderation. The locker system for controlling liquor seems to me to be another very undesirable method of dealing with alcoholic refreshment. In fact, the whole thing seems to be too full of deceit and fraud to appeal to those who desire to see a nation built up of strong, clean characters.”