OUR LICENSING SYSTEM.
; ."• A QUEENSLAND yiEW.,; I? (DT mEOEiPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPTniQHT.) .: ■ ' '■'..(Eeo:.May.l2, Lμ.) : ,-j.y. . ;■: Brisbane, May 11." Police Magistrate Banking's- report on. the licensing system, of 'Now Zealand was made, available to-night. .'lt states that tho statistics of :the Dominion .and of the eastern 'States 'of ■■• the Commonwealth 'demonstrate' that ■ individuals year by year' aro becoming morie- temperate. Much, no doubt, remains to be done, and may: be v dorio" by legislative action, but ho has very grave doubts as to the effectiveness of a partially preventive system,'which, as;• -its first effect upon the consumer of liquor, arouses in his breast a feeling of defiance, a hungering after forbidden fruit, and a determination to secure gratification of. his appetite by foul or fair means. Aβ to the value of thV Now Zealand system in the' direction of permanent reform of the intemperate or encouragement of habits of abstinence among others, no-sufficiont evidence is at present obtainable. V. \ ■■' ' v; ■■■' '■ " :
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 505, 12 May 1909, Page 7
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157OUR LICENSING SYSTEM. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 505, 12 May 1909, Page 7
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