The Lord Bishop of Madras yesterday [in Coonoor on June 5] presided at the annual conference of Missionaries in connection with the South Indian Missionary Association at Stanes School. The Rev. J. M. Baker read the report of the last year’s work. The following resolution was adopted: Believing that the consumption of alcohol in India is on the increase and is causing injury to the Indian people; and believing that in spite of all regulations the injury is sure to increase unless there is prohibition; and sympathising with the aspirations of Hindu and Mahomedan reformers to make all India dry, the Coonoor Conference of the S.I.M.A. records its hearty approval of this association uniting with other bodies throughout the land in the effort to make India a prohibition country in the fullest sense of that term, and that as a step towards that ultimate goal the Government should be requested to give a wide extension in the principle of local option.
