Second Edition INTEMPERANCE IN N.S.W.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 95, 29 April 1913, Page 6

Second Edition INTEMPERANCE IN N.S.W.

THE ALLIANCE ALARMED

(Received 10.5 a.m.) Sydney, April 29

Tli© report of the New South Wales Alliance pointed out that the increase in convictions for two years was 5597, and that' as there has been no corresponding growth in population, it was very evident that intemperance -had greatly increased. THE STATE’S DRINK BILL. Reference was made to a statement prepared by Archdeacon Boyce covering the State’s drink bill for 1912, vvlhich shows a total expenditure of £7,096,624, an increase of £694,917, compared to the previous statement, making an increase for two years oi £1,374 - ,640. The expenditure per head of the population was £4 Os 6d, an increase df 3s Bd, making an increase in two years of 10s per head. Whild anticipating an increase owing to properoits times, Archdeacon Boyce says Tie'• was not prepared for so notable an increase as the figures reveal, and for which ho frankly admits ho doCs not'think prosperity sufficiently accounts; The increase was most marked in colonial beer, the -consumption of which advanced 4,507,727 gallons in two years. The Convictions for drunkenness last year was 38,977, including 3232 women

INCREASE ATTRIBUTED TO THREE CAUSES.

Archdeacon Boyce considers the increase of' intemperance, apart froir the commercial prosperity, attribut able to three causes, viz., a weakening of the moral fibre of the people genol-ally ; the neglect of the churchejand ether bodies to foster temperance sbeieties; and the shortening of the hours of labour, while the hotels were allowed to remain open.