ASK THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC THIS?
According to Police Reports for 1921, /there were over 8800 convictions for drunkenness in New Zealand.. Ask the liquor traffic what made these cases ‘drunks’ and where did they get ilt ? Ask the liquor traffic if the arrests and convictions represent all the drunkenness in New Zealand? Ask the liquor traffic if it is true that every habitual drunkard and every casual drunkard began as a moderate? Ask the liquor traffic if intoxicating drink is solid anywhere in New Zealand without drunkenness being there too? Ask the liquor traffic if a prohibit ; on order taken out by a man himself or on a relative’s request is ever broken? Ask the liquor \traffie if a prohibition order has a chance of being obeyed whilst an organised trade is pushing temptation before a. man at every opportunity? Ask the liquor ‘traffic who pays when n husband and father spends most or all of his money on drink? In the U.S.A. under prohibition drnnkennness ha-5 been reduced GO per coolt. Ask von", self if it if frot t.»—e t’-at Prohibition is just Coi.i_ mon-serse?— N.Z. Alliance FuViicity. (61).
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Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 759, 5 September 1922, Page 7
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190ASK THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC THIS? Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 759, 5 September 1922, Page 7
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