INTEMPERANCE.
(To tho Editor.) .Sir, —I fear that I selected the wrong time for giving some opinions of my own and of others oil the subject of intemperance public utterance, since my doing so lias led to a confusion of issues; nobody in Gisborne can think or write about any subject but no-license just now, whereas I merely wished to speak of the great problem of intemperance. I wish, however, in withdrawing from this discussion, to observe that if the -light, almost non-alcoholic wines and beers which arc used in FiVince. and other parts of the European continent were tho general beverage amongst the English and in the colonies, drunkenness would soon be vastly reduced, if not almost exterminated. The most markedly intoxicating liquor used in France is absinthe, anil tlie French Government is now moving to prevent entirely the importation and manufacture'of this dangerous liquor. I would ask P. G. Andrew to kindly note those facts. —I am, etc., GERARD SMITH.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2305, 25 September 1908, Page 1
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162INTEMPERANCE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2305, 25 September 1908, Page 1
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