The receiving set licenses issued in Victoria in May showed an improvement of 484. In the Commonwealth the number in existence is 329,618. There were 7489 new issues in the month and 7005 cancellations. Victoria’s proportion fell off by 596, but it still has 137,556 licenses in force. New South Wales, which has an increase of 301, is creeping slowly up to Victoria. Queensland is the only other State with a minus quantity for May. “ Probation officers have remarked that few children who are Sunday school trained get into the courts, and 95 per cent, of those appearing in the children’s courts are from the non-churchgoing class,” declared the Rev. E. O. Blamires, preacning on the question of Bible in schools from the pulpit of the Master ton MethoAst Church. Mr Blamires added that of these there were 80,000 of school age in New Zealand to day.
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Otago Witness, Issue 4033, 30 June 1931, Page 24
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