THE DRINK TRAFFIC.
' NEW SOUTH WALES FIGURES xx ' A HALF-MILLION INCREASE.
United Pbess Association. Copyright (Received, Sept. 8, 12.55 a.m.)
SYDNEY. Sept. 7. Canon Boyce’s annual review states that tlie drink traffic hill of Now South Wales for 1907 totalled £5,200,74.4, equal to £3 6s- Lid j>cr head of the- population. This is an increase of £552,008, or 5s 6:1 per head on the previous year. The increase attributed to prosperous-times. The convictions For Sunday drunkenness are 7SJ, as compared with 2318 -for the year before' tho Local Option Bill became operative. The convictions for sly-grog, Sun'X-'. day, and after-hours selling have all I , decreased, ;
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2290, 8 September 1908, Page 3
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