MORE REBUFFS.
(From Lyttelton Times)
The good people, and others, who are striving to obtain a prohibition majority in this country at tho coining pod are certainly not receiving much encouragement from the outside world. Iceland has gone back on prohibition. Some of the Canadian provinces have done the same. Sweden recently rejected prohibition by a substantial majority. Norway is apparently getting very tired of its arid conditions. In that country, we are told, there is a. pronounced movement in. favour of repeal of the prohibition law, and we have the striking statement that this movement is supported by the* leader of the prohibition party. We hope that New Zealand electors are carefully reading the news from ■other lands. Espedialy can be recommend a study of conditions in America where the greatest experiment of this order has been made, with painful results. The latest development, in regard to shipping, may become of international import, for it seems that the Attorney-General of the l nitod States, who is backed by the President expects vessels trading with America to throw every drop of liquor overboard when within three miles ol the coast of that legally dry, hut actually wet, country. President Harding has postponed the operation of this new ; ukase for two or three days, for rea- | sons not disclosed at the time of I writing, but one call imagine that he I thinks it advisable to consider the serI iousness of the new proposition, j American ships are apparently, under ! the new order, to be “dry” no matter in what part of the world they j may be trading, while other ships I must not carry grog into the threemile limit. Tt will not be surprising, if this extreme eoursa is really put into force, to find Canadian ports favoured a,t- the iexpense of American ports, and certainly a heavy blow will fall iupotii shipping registered under the Stars and Stripes. However. it all helps to discredit prohibition, for which, in the present situation in Now Zealand, we cannot help being thankful.*
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 October 1922, Page 4
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341MORE REBUFFS. Hokitika Guardian, 13 October 1922, Page 4
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