N.S.W. LIQUOR POLL

Hokitika Guardian, 4 September 1928, Page 1

N.S.W. LIQUOR POLL

WHAT IT SIGNIFIES. (Australian Press Association.) LONDON, Sept. 3. The Daily Telegraph, in an editorial, says: Tho result of the Australian Prohibition poll is a sign that the times are unfavourable to Prohibition. It has proved a disastrous failure where it has been tried in Europe, and in the United. States it is law, without tho foroo of law. In Australia it has hleon more heavily defeated in tho States that have been consulted than its advocates have ever anticipated. Apparently tho Commonwealth will be spared the experience of Canberra, which has proved as in Canada and in New Zealand that the enforcement of Prohibition in tho provinces and in tlie districts is more farcical than Is nationwide Prohibition. In tlie meantime, drunkenness is visibly declining wherever there is the minimum of interference with private habits. Upon this, more than upon any schemes of regulation, the believers in true temperance found their hopes.

POLL IN VICTORIA. MELBOURNE, Sept. 3. The Victorian Government has announced a poll throughout the state of Victoria, to decide whether liquor licenses should lie abolished, will bo taken in Victoria, in 1930.

CANBERRA LICENSES TO ISSUE. SYDNEY, Sept. 3. As the result of Saturday’s vote at Canberra, the Federal Government has decided to immediately issue licenses for the sale of liquor at Canberra, which hitherto has been a dry area. VIEW OF THE TRADE. WEHLINGTON, Sept. 3. Mr Percy Coyle the official representative of the United Now Zealand Licensed Victuallers’ Association, when interviewed, said that the result of the Now South AVales referendum was very satisfactory. A substantial majority against the “Drvs” was anticipated. Asked if he thought the result would have any bearing on the forthcoming referendum in New Zealand, Mr Coyle stated he certainly thought it would’. Such a decisive majority proved conclusively that Prohibition was not wanted in New South Wales: ;uid it would ho outside tho realm of practical polities to have Continuance in New ith Wales and Prohibition i<n New .. .aland, and he believed that tho general public of New Zealand, in the light of the events in America, an in the rejection of Prohibition in New South Wales, will not hesitate to express themselves accordingly at the coming poll.