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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2328, 22 October 1908, Page 3

IN DESPERATE. STRAITS. Are many who could bo cured by Dr. Sheldon’s New Discovery for Coughs, Colds, and .Consumption. Price Is 6d. and 3. per bottle. Obtainable at A. W. J. Mann, Chemist, agent. ' H IS M AJESTY’S T HEA7RE TO-NIGHT! TO-NIGHT! THURSDAY, 22nd OCTOBER, At S p.m. NO-LICENSE CONVERSAZIONE. .jftj-USIC, J^ EFRESHMENTS HORT A DDRESSES. P k ADMISSION—Is, in aid of League Eu lids. ■t WILL ALL INTERESTED IN THE COMING REFORM MAKE AN EFFORT TO BE PRESENT ? • DRINK. T HE QAUSE AND Q URSE. M{. F. N. CHARRINGTON the L devoted worker in Milo JMHk in interview with a special repre;ative of the “Daily News” (Lon- ), in reply to the question, ‘‘IS 15 DESTITUTION GREAT JuST W ?” ■ replied : “Very great. It is always very great here. But it* is •worse in Poplar, St. George’s and Limehouse than with us. And yet some of the dock laborers earned ;C3 to £6 a week only a few months ago, and even then were almost starving by the week end. One man who boasted lie had earned £3 in the week had given liis wife half-a-crown on 1 which to keep house. It is drink, drink everywhere, that is at the bottom-of it all.” “WOULD NOT BETTER HOMES HELP THE PEOPLE TO GIVE UP THE DRINK?” “Give many of these people as good a homo as you like and they would reduce it to a pigsty© in a week. _ Give them boots for all their, children, and the hoots would go> to the pawnshop straight away. If tile drink were stopped there would be so much money to spend that trade would go up by leaps •and bounds, and there would not be enough workers to do 'the work. Drink is the A cause, drink is the curse!” ‘WSTHEN you want vour money to tv bring you tho best return', remember NOAH’S A'RK can give 'you •the best value in new and second-hand furniture, and all-classes of goods. We buy, sell, or exchange., furniture and goods of every description. „-Gramaphones and records for sale or exchange.—NOAH’iS ARK, Gladstone Jload, ’PhouQ 101.