Prohibition advocated

About 30 ladies met in the Anderson’s Bay Sunday School Hall to hear an address on prohibition by Mrs Harrison Lee Cowie. The prohibitionists had been granted the bare majority vote on a straightforward proposition undimmed by the fog of political considerations. She wished to put before them the chief reasons in favour of prohibition, so that they might pass them on to others before polling day, and so help to bring about a great reform. After seeing the State of Maine, said the speaker, she could truthfully say that prohibition in its worst form was better than license at its best. It was in America that prohibition had made such wonderful strides during the last two or three years. In the course of her remarks Mrs Cowie said that next year prohibition would become a part of the constitution of the United States by the vote of 44 States out of 48, and it would be enforced on July 1 of this year for protection during demobilisation. It was for New Zealand to follow America’s example and so away with the trade. — ODT, 12.2.1919.