A Magistrate on Prohibition.
Mr Panton, Magistrate, Sydney, who is a member of the Licensing Bencb, gave veut to views winch will not make him a favorite with Prohibitionists. Judge Molesworth differed from two Police Magistrates on an application for a colonial wine license. He was against granting it because it was opposed by the teetotal party. The Magistrates overruled him and granted the license, Mr Panton stating that people who never tasted a glass of wise in their lives did not know what they were talking about. They set themselves to prevent tueusuo of any more colonial wine liceusea. That was absurd and as impossible of accom* plishment as to prevent the growth of wool or wheat. He regarded the Court as an agency for encouraging wine drinking- and to gee that ♦iceuiee w«t» granted to proper persons. 'Teetotallers would *nin a valuable industry wbfcfe: in 'bis opinion, would put the colony out of its present condition., • . »•
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 145, 18 December 1895, Page 2
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158A Magistrate on Prohibition. Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 145, 18 December 1895, Page 2
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