At the Auckland Exhibition.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 October 1922, Page 1

At the Auckland Exhibition.

The 'other ch® T was at the Auckland Winter {Exhibition and was pounced upon IK- a bright young :nan who evidently Considered me a likely •onvert to the| prohibition cause. So lie gave me a |>amphl<t—“Ten Years of Prohibtion is Oklahoma,” by Pussy [not Johnson. | Tim booklet is full of wonders that the elimination of strong drink has done, for Oklahoma. Iteally marvellous ! 5

1 have Ik on feeling “wavery” in my convictions evil- since—up to a few minutes ago. f Hut I've just come across ,something which the Governor of the State |>f Oklahoma, the Hon J. li. A. Robertson. said to the Kota ria ns a few| months ago. Here it is:— 5

“ Practically levery man in the country is making: his own hootch in his own home, men who, before the law prohibited it, had no liking for drink. Now, howeveii they seem to take a fiemlisli deliglft in drinking and making “choc” "bfjer, wine or some other drink. j

“I venture stile assertion there are whisky stills In every county in the State' of Oklahoma, with bootleggers increasing faster than has any other creature in the history' of the woild.

“It were hotter a thousand times that there wore no law of the kind than to have it violated n.s it is now being violated, (.specially when one considers the hast amount of revenue that we used to get and which is now being spent trying to prevent the violation of the whisky laws.” _ That’s after about 15; years of prohibition—for the prohibition book-let tells me this State gotS it in 1907. But, no doubt, as we i are told, “prohibition take's a little while to get going!”— J.A.H.*