THE CROWN SOLICITOR GIVES EVIDENCE.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 33, 20 October 1911, Page 11

THE CROWN SOLICITOR GIVES EVIDENCE.

Msr. A. G. Creagh', Crown of Oaanaru, eaid: —"I am satisißed thai No-Jicensa almost entirely prevents \h& formation of th©' drink 'habit by ih& younger generation. The question of the making of new drunkards is thai central point of the problem. If we fail here we fail everywhere "J if we succeed fuere we even* tnally succeed everywhere. Empinati* oally, so far as I can see and hear, a r.ew crop of drunkards is not being manufactured in this No-license district. The drinking is now almost oouifiraed to a, comparatively • small section, whose appetite for alcohol was roused in license days and who continue tho habit. With the passing of these, th* drinking circle will become a very amalt one indeed. '■"--- . "WITH REGARD TO CRIME i There has been a, marked diminution! la the district. As Crown Prosecutor, tny duties are now very light, and thero M a striking contrast between the prescali state of tthiings and that ruling priot to No-liceisse, these odffences usually having their origin in drinJt are almost entirely absent.