WHAT OF NEW ZEALAND?
A COMPARISON WITH IKS.A. 11l New Zealand we have not the low .saloon system. We have not a i;he of the liquor evils that America had. The Trade here is, on the whole, decently conducted by decent men; our people compare more than favourably with any in the world for sobriety. Air Masse.’, said in the House tin* other day “that it was a fact that New Zealand was a, temperate country—probably the most temperate in tbe world, outside France. Some reforms are necessary, of course—and they arc coming. They must come just as surely as the steady decline in drunkenness during the past ten years has come. . Prohibition in New Zealand would be a disaster, just as it was in America. It would create a host of hnvevader.s. It would drive the liquor trade underground. It would attract criminals and wasters in this country, for there would he nnifjje opportunities for making fortunes out of sly grog. Let us think well ami long before we risk this “experiment.” A licensed trade out in the open can he watched, taxed, regulated and controlled ; a poison booze traffic underground would menace the whole wolllieing of our nation. Vote Continuance.—B4.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 November 1922, Page 3
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202WHAT OF NEW ZEALAND? Hokitika Guardian, 17 November 1922, Page 3
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