PROHIBITION IN ASHBURTON.
', >'-LETTEE BX:rDE.;nNpLAT.;../-y :f :■' ;(By ■ ■lelcßraph.-^Prese; ; AßMciatlon.) '; - • ; - ■ Chrlstchurch, April 4.. •■■:. ...With -regard, to.: an article appearing on/March■.!: in . a Ghristchurch :.news- ■.; papery the secretary of the Christch-uroh Prohibition '■ League 'communicated .with Minister for Justice, and'has received .: the following reply:—■■-■' ' '~ i ■-, /Department, of'.Justice,':'Wellington' -. /'S>r,' Beferring again, to your letter of iiarcb. i, I have to inform you that; I have'read the article.on prohibition in Ashburton published-in'the Christchrirch ■ .ftess,' and am strongly', of opinion that ' it was; Specially written'with the object of showing that, prohibition was a failure, • . •.... and ; that. thq' .writer -has -: drawn upon f• • h !£- .'.poffn.l'tion '.for: , his- • facts;- ■■ As 'you :■.'■: are .ap-aror.the ■ Ashbu.rro'n .police" are' inosf .onergetic'Jn■ :th?ir;efForts. to'sta'mii-ont ely-srog. selling- and-the sfeitement'made , m,ttie-article.to th'o. effect.that the writer; a ■.perfect; 'stranger,: could obtain; liquor ">,'tne- mannerVdescribed js to my mind ridiculous f and ■ unworthy of - serious \ notice.. ! ; I-' direct your at-' : tention.hvtho view of another Australian visitor published in.the Ashburton 'Guar- , dian';of; lebrnary; 12, '1910.. - ■'\ ■ '• ."•'.-"' "I;:haV6':.the ■ honour.." to: be , / sir," your : most qbedientservant,. J. G.Findlny."
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 783, 5 April 1910, Page 5
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168PROHIBITION IN ASHBURTON. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 783, 5 April 1910, Page 5
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