NEWS BY MAIL.
TEETOTALLERS WHO BUY WINE. LONDON'. Or-t. ‘Jo. Teetotallers arc among the best, customers of wine merchants said Mi K. Rutherford, chairman of the Wine and Spirit Trade Defence Fund, at an international conference of anti-Prohi-bitionists at the Savoy Hotel, Strand. in his view it makes all the dilierence • between profit and loss to the wine merchant to have those teetotal clients “who just take a little drop to make them sleep; make the Christinas pudding almost drunk and disorderly with brandy same; and maintain that port, though twice as strong as claret, is a teetotal beverage.’' li Prohibition became an imminent menace, wine merchants could within two to three years make their fortunes by filling nil the cellars ot their fellow countrymen before the “dry’’ days began. .Mr 11. E. Fox (United States) said that police statistics in his country, while showing more drunkenness under Prohibition, did not tell of what v..in going on in the people's homes or behind closed doors in private clubs and social organisations. There had been a startling increase in motoring accidents due to drunken drivers, in divorces, suicides and homicides.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 December 1923, Page 4
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189NEWS BY MAIL. Hokitika Guardian, 22 December 1923, Page 4
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