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Otaki Mail, 22 November 1922, Page 3

ANGLICAN SYHOD’S CONDEMNATION OF PROHIBITION. Speaking on prohibition at the Australian Anglican Synod, held in Brisbane recently. Canon Batty (according to the Sydney “Sunday Times”) said ‘ * that prohibition did not prevent drunkenness, rather it drove it out of sight. The better way was to make drinking as public as possible, not to hide ir. There was also a very grave danger that prohibition would foster bitterness between classes. The rich man in America could obtain alcohol almost as easily as before prohibition, but it was not easy for the man without money. • ‘ ‘ One of the most serious things in ments used was that prohibition would be assisting industrial efficiency. That was not so. He had spent some months in teetotal Mahommcdan countries, and he had not been impressed with the efficiency exhibited. “I do not fear the competition of Egypt and Svria with beer-drinking England.” “On of the most serious things in connection with prohibition in America was that it had engendered a wholesale disregard for the law. Although prohibition was a measure of drastic interference there was no evidence that it had brought about social improvement. ’ ’ | It would be superfluous to add any comment to the above. Vote Continu-

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