WHERE DID THEY GET IT

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 60, 5 December 1918, Page 6

WHERE DID THEY GET IT

Sir,—l noticed iu your paper the other day that there were six eases one morning of intoxication before Mr. Frazer, S.M. The Magistrate, with a charming humour which so befits him on the bench, indicated that ho supposed there were some back doors in the hotels of tho city open, and that the men who were before him had obtained liquor in that way. Mr. Frazor is a stranger to Wellington, and he does not know so much about Jiho ways of the sly-grog seller .and the indifference , of the police, otherwise he would not have given expression to the supposition of his .own invention. In all probability the inen before him then —men who hts- charged with intoxication that morning when all the publichouses were closed—were the result of the general prohibition, and that these men obtained their eupjilies from tho sly-grog shops, which weire the first 'fruits of Prohibition, and that the police, while they anight the fruits, were unable to discover the trees, so to speak. The sly-grop ''ops of the city spring up like mushrooms in the night immediately tho hotels are closed, thus proving that if one legitimate door is closed two illegitimate doors are opened to provide for the demand; and the police, who liavo been particularly careful that all publichonso bars have been 6ealcd up. havo evidently been winking at the carryings on of the sly-grog sellers of the city. —I am. etc., MODERATE.