CHANGE FOR BETTER IN BRITAIN.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20101, 3 December 1930, Page 13

CHANGE FOR BETTER IN BRITAIN.

CARLISLE SYSTEM PRAISED. [THE PRESS Special Servico.] WELLINGTON, December 2. Speaking at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Licensing Reform Association yesterday, the president (the Rev. P. T. Williams), who has just returned from a visit to Great Britain, said he had been amazed at the wonderful change for the better, from the temperance point of view, which was disclosed on every hand in England and Scotland. He felt sure that this was largely due to the sweeping advances made in public-house reform, which had followed the institution of the State control system in Carlisle and district. The licensed trade of England had been awakened to the importance of improving conditions, if private ownership was to continue to exist in the Old Country. The provision of better environment thus created had done much to improve the self-respect and habits of the people. The old-time evidence of intemperance, which ho remembered when working in a parish in East London forty years ago, had entirely disappeared. He had personally inspected the so-called Carlisle system, and had met leading clergymen of the district, who all spoke in high terms of praise of the wonderful improvement effected under State control.