NORFOLK ISLAND

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2319, 28 November 1914, Page 9

NORFOLK ISLAND

ANOTHER LAUGHABLE EXAMPLE. ■ Prohibitionists are like drowning men, they catch at straws ; or it may be, ,to mix the metaphor somewhat, Prohibit tionists are like little wanton boys that swim on bladders' and get beyond their depth. ' i . • . Norfolk Island is tho last place to try prohibition of spirits—their manufacture, and. general sale. General sale and general use of certain ' alcoholic beverages is permitted; but if Norfolk" Island were teetotally "dry" it is rather laughable to filid Prohibitionists holding up, this speck on the ocean as ; an example of the success (?) of Prohibition. _ Norfolk Island is 800 miles away from Australia, and stands in relation to the Commonwealth as Somes Island in Wellington Harbour stands in relation to this Dominion. \ Norfolk Island has no trade worth speaking about. Its people, numbering; 800, are, indolent and decadent,' through immorality and inter-marrying. ■ The, "Encyclopaedia Britannica" says of Norfolk Island:—"Crime was rarely punished, and debts were not recoverable. Owing to thore has been a steady deterioration of the .race!" And when people become deteriorated through one cause' or another they seek a Tefuge from wickedness and vice in Prohibition and No-License.

Norfolk Island is the proper place for Prohibition,"'but not' New Zealand, for here wo are for the most part still a virile and progressive race.—Published by arrangement.