BRITISH LABOUR M.P’S.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 October 1922, Page 1

BRITISH LABOUR M.P’S.

INVESTIGATE “DRY” AMERICA

Messrs Charles H. Siteli, M.P., and John E. Davidson, M.P., of the British House of Commons, who went as a deputation to investigate and report on Prohibition, stated on their return: “As to the general eft'eot of the new law, we are compelled to state that, in our judgment, Prohibition, as we in this country have been led to believe it prevails, docs not exist. It hcis resulted in an enormous development in home brewing and wine making. Illicit stills are still quite common in private houses, and the necessary apparatus can be purchased in the stores. The Anti-Saloon League claims to havo foreseen this possibility, hut it is doubtful if it anticipated that it would reach the dimensions it has assumed. In one district alone, hop dealers estimate! the output from this source at ten million barrels of beer, averaging double the strength formerly turned out by tbe commercial breweries. The grape growers of California have-, sold in a single year enough grape concentrates to make over twenty-million gallons of wine.’ ” There is no need to add any remarks to this statement. Vote Continuance.—4s.