HOW TO STOP 26,400 CONVICTIONS.
If prohibition is not carried at the
next poll the liquor traffic win. be free to carry on for another three years. That means that, on a con-servative’-estimate, it will be flree ta produce 26,400 convictions for drunkenness in New Zealand. It; 1921 the traffic resulted in over 8800 convictions. Not only will the traffic result in tiiat during the next three year, but P will also result in all the degradation and misery produced in homes where the victim to drink does not appear in the Courts. Prohibition does not immediately wipe out all drunkenness, but it does reduce it enormously. In Canada, in 1914, unden license, when only bad "drunks” were tn© arrests were 16,981. In 1921, under prohioition, when any mail showing signs of drunkenness was arrested, they were only 5811, Besides, as Sir John Salmond has said of prohibition in the U.S.A., the younger generation are growing up without cultivating the taste for alcohol.
Prohibition .is just Common-sense—-prevention rather than cure. Vote out the liquor traffic and stop the cause of drunkenness.—N.Z. Alliance Publicity
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4448, 2 August 1922, Page 2
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183HOW TO STOP 26,400 CONVICTIONS. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4448, 2 August 1922, Page 2
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