"A WEARY ARMY."
INCREASING YEAR BY* TEAS/ In his address at the Town .Hall last evening, Mr. T. E. Taylor, M.P., quoted, some figures handed him by the Rev. Mγ.Walker as he entered the hall. In 1908 lie said the peoplo of New Zealand expended- on liquor a sum of £3,751,963, m other words an expenditure of j£3;lss, sd. per head of population. Convictions for drunkenness in 1895 numbered. 4568. The number, had gone up.with scarcely a break in any one year, until in 1907 convictions totalled,lo,2o3; Of this number 5509 were convictions' of first offenders.; While present conditions continued, gaia Mr. Taylor, the. same weary army, increasing year 'by- year, would pass through the police courts. And it waa beyond the now of man to say ..from , what homes "in New Zealand men and, women would come who would figure fflfuture statistics.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 980, 22 November 1910, Page 4
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