“DRY” PICKETS.
BOMBAY, India. March 15
Serious demoralisation of the .people as a result of the Bombay Government s temperance policy is alleged in the annual Excise Administration’s report for the past year. The report states that, following the Government’s progressive reduction in the country of liquor supplies, the illicit distillation and eomsumption of foreign liquor, methylated spirits, and drugs have greatly increased. Four hundred and thirty-five thousand pounds yearly, which should go to the Government in the form of Excise duties, have been transferred to the Dockets of illicit distillers and bootleggers from neighbouring Indian States.
The report recommends the abandonment of rati ming. and advises the regulation of consumption and the re-imp'-fiition of maxima selling prices.
Mr VallaMiai Patel, brother of the President of (lie legislative Assembly, who conducted the Bardoli Government, is contemplating picketing the liquor diops in Gujerat wjjdi a view to forcibly converting the people t« prohibition.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 April 1929, Page 7
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152“DRY” PICKETS. Hokitika Guardian, 27 April 1929, Page 7
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