THE ANTI-SHOUTING ACT
\ a farce tlio Anti-Shouting generally was full of it, and dealt with the matter from a joking point of view, out soon the question was forgotten alike by the Press and tho police, and now you may offer your pal a drink with impunity after you have received a tew tips from the knowing ones I havo travelled between' Wellington and Auckland, and discussed tho Antiblioutmg Act with men holding stronc views on both sidos of the question of Prohibition versus Liconse, and all agreed that tho polico were not at-' tempting to carry the Act into effect. Why are not private detectives employed by the Government to go into the ban and clubs and obtain evidencewhich would be forthcoming in nearly every bar in New Zealand? Evidencewhicli, if the Act is applied to the letter, would'close practically every, bar in New Zealand. Why is this pretence of protecting' our soldier boys from becoming drunkards kept up? Why don't the Government tako the "bull by the horns" and see that the polico summons both tho person who sells and tho person who Buys the "shout," and cbtain convic- . tion against them, and then close the bars'that countenance this illegal proceeding? The Government failed to i refer the drink question to a referendum, although a great majority of tho ! people of the Dominion desired it, but - instead this silly Anti-Shouting Act was ■ placed on tho Statute Book,- which is i the laughing stock to all and sundrydrinkers and non-drinkers alike. It is. . neither one thing nor another, and un- • less an army of private detectives" i 3 ■ employed, with a good reward sticking l out for every conviction, the Act is , likely to remain a dead letter. • i I hope this letter will raise a controversy on the question, and so interest those who think the Anti-Shouting. Act is a success to look into the bars themselves, and see what is going on. I venture to say thero is more drinking going on to-day than before tho , Act came into force.
I need not remind you, sir, what Russia has done, _ and -the good effect generally Prohibition has bad on that nation. Canada and British Columhia are also "dry," and Australia and Tasmania are curtailing the hours for selling <lrink. Most of the Allied generals are emphatic that drink, and drink only, has prolonged the duration of the war. and the probability is we should have had peace to-day if Britain had her overseas dominions had prohibited the 6ale of intoxicating drinks during the war, besides saving tho nation many millions' of money annually—l am ' 6 ENFORCE ANTI-SHOUTING. Auckland, October 13. •
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2910, 24 October 1916, Page 6
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443THE ANTI-SHOUTING ACT Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2910, 24 October 1916, Page 6
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