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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 64, 9 December 1919, Page 7

Snenkins at Newiown Park on Sunday, Mr. W. D. B. Crcagh, of Sydney, sa'id that the liquor traffic was doomed, even the trade's little five-yea r-ol<i' 6011, "Tho Moderate League," admitted that its parent iviis not playing the game, it needed refoi'mins; but the people's movement, tho prohibition party, had its ie.ea of the matter, and looking down the ages after everv conceivable reform and control had been tried, they came to the conclusion that there wns only one way to deal with this traflie in alcohol—banishment from our iniiist as a co'umnn bevenige. The (loiiinion use of strong alcoholic beverages had hindered tho nation's progress, and robbr.d men aim women of character, their lipnllh, homes, and their lilwrtv. The habit of drinking alcoholic litiuors. said Mr. Creagh, had put more men and women, and even children, on tho human scrap-heap than any other known thine.

By an official decree issued in Paris, the' importation of foreign wines will onlv b<; allowed by tea., and only to ports on the Atlantic tho English Channel, and the North Sea,