SPIES AND “ SPEAKEASIES."
The Washington (D.C.) “News” of December 7, 1927, publishes the following :— “A professiopaj informer in Washington the other day told the police his own. sister was violating the prohibition law. He led the police to her hopie; and she was arrested.” “The journal,” Providence, Says i—“The enforcement of the prohibition law is a plain f.ayce over very large areas, of t.he United States. Nationa.l prohibition has not accomplished the reforms' for which it was intended, but has prqduceid new evils atld aggravated old ones. The sale of intoxicating liquors, goes oh, only half com ceajleJd, in every se-'.tion of the country.” Prohibiticp is a law .that, is foreign to British people. Keep it out, of New Zealand.*
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5334, 3 October 1928, Page 2
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120SPIES AND “ SPEAKEASIES." Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5334, 3 October 1928, Page 2
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