BRITISH LABOUR M.P’S.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4483, 25 October 1922, Page 2

BRITISH LABOUR M.P’S.

INVESTIGATE “DRY” AMERICA.

Messrs Charles H. Sitch, M.P-, ami John E. Davidson. M.P., of the British House of Commons’, who went as a deputation tp investigate and report, on Prohibition, stated on their return: “As to the general effect cf the new law, we are compelled tp state that, in our judgment, Prohibition as we in this country have been led to believe it prevails, does not exist. It has resulted in an enormous development in home brewing and wine-mak-ing. Illicit stills are quite common in private houses, and the hecessarj’ apparatus can be purchased in the stores. The Anti-Saloon League claims’ tp have foreseen this possibility. but it is doubtful if it anticipated that it would reach the dimensions it has assumed. In one district a’one ‘bop dealers estimate the output from this source at ten million barrels of beer, averaging double the strength formerly turned out by the commercial breweries. The grape growers of California have sold in a single year enough grape concentrates to make over twenty million gallons of, wine.’” There is no need to add any remarks .to this’ statement. Vote Restoration and National Continuance’