SPIES AND "SPEAK-EASIES."
The Washington (D.C.) "News" of December 7, 1927, publishes the following:— "A professional informer in Washington the other day told the police his own sister was violating the prohibition law. He led the police to her home, and she was arrested." "The Journal," Providence, says: — "The enforcement of the prohibition law is a plain farce over very large areas of the United States. National prohibition has not accomplished the reforms for which ii was intended, but " has produced new evils and aggravated old ones. The sale of intoxicating liquors goes on, only half concealed, in every section of the country." Prohibition is a law that is foreign to British people. Keep 't out of New Zealand.—(Ad.) J
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 233, 2 October 1928, Page 8
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120SPIES AND "SPEAK-EASIES." Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 233, 2 October 1928, Page 8
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