AN OUTSPOKEN PROHIBITIONIST

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 500, 1 November 1928, Page 12

AN OUTSPOKEN PROHIBITIONIST

MAYOR OP PHILADELPHIA’S DIFFICULTY Mayor Mackay, according to the Philadelphia “Bulletin” of April 13, 1928, challenged President Coolidge, Congress, and all Federal authorities of the District of Columbia to “dry up” Washington and make it an example of prohibition enforcement to the rest of the nation. Mayor Mackay said; Why does not the President and the Congress give the rest of the nation a real example In the enforcement of the dry laws if prohibition is enforceable? My stand has been taken, and everybody knows what it is.” Mr. Mackay said: “I have given Director Davis his instructions. From now on the entire matter of police activity lies in the department's hands.” Dealing with speakeasies and the people who patronise them, Mayor Mackay said this; I have always been a prohibitionist, and I want the policy of prohibition to triumph, and I am anxious to enforce the law to the utmost. To make Philadelphia dry—something that cannot in fact be done”—he said, “I am caught between the upper and lower layers in connection with Prohibition.

I mean the people who say in public that the speakeasies of this city should be closed, and who are the people in private who patronise these speakeasies. “When I became Mayor of this city I was left with 13,000 speakeasies on my door step by the previous administration. I say, and I say emphatically, that to make this city dry it would be necessary to double the police force, double the number of judges, increase the District Attorney's Office, and build and maintain additional prisons. Doubling the police force would cost over 7 million dollars more a year to collect from taxpayers, and altogether complete enforcement measurements would call for a round ten million dollars extra in city costs. It is time,” concluded Mayor Mackay, “that the public itseif faced the facts. Are citizens willing to pay higher taxation in an effort to enforce Prohibition?” Such is the state of affairs in the city of Philadelphia, where even the Mayor, himself a Prohibitionist, is unable to cope with the evils, corruption and social degradation which Prohibition has produced.—Advt.

DISTRICT STOCK SALES AUCTIONEERS’ REPORTS Auctioneers report on stock sales held throughout the district during the past week as follow: The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., reports:—We held sales during the past week at Papakura, Westfield and Kaukapakapa, and one clearing sale. There is still a keen demand for all classes of cattle, and we report most successful sales. Dairy cows and heifers, best, made £l4 to £2l; good fair, £9 to £l3 10s; others, £6 10s to £S 15s; aged cows and inferior heifers, £4 to £6 ss; bulls, sgns to 20gns, according to age, breed and quality: yearling heifers, best, £5 to £7 os; others. £3 10s to £4 17s 6d; store and boner cows, £4 10s to £6 15s; yearling to IS-months steers, £4 to £5 15s; 2. to 2£-year, £6 to £7 7s 6d; 3 to CA-year. £7 10s to £8 15s; 4 to 4£-year, £9 to £lO ss; grown steers, in forward condition, £lO 10s to £l2 7s 6d.

Alfred Buckland and Sons, Ltd., report: —During the week we held sales at Westfield, Waiotira, Maungakaramea and Waitakaruru and a pig sale at Tuakau. Full yardings have found keen buyers and good clearances were effected at all centres. Best dairy cows made £l2 to £IS; second grade cows. £9 to £ll 15s: other dairy cows, £6 to £S Io.s; other best springing heifers , £ll 10s Co £l6; other springing heifers, £6 10s to £11; well-bred yearling to IS-month-old heifers, £6 Fs to £S 15s for best; smaller well-bred heifers, £4 15s to £6 ss; other heifers, £3 10s to £4 12s 6d; empty young cows and heifers, £5 5s to £7; store and boner cows, £3 10s to £6; heavy prime young fat cows and heifers, £9 to £l3 10s: lighter cows and heifers, £6 to £S 17s 6d; fat steers, £l2 to £l6 15s; grown steers in forward condition, £lO 10s to £ll 15s: best four-year-old steers, £9 10s to £lO 7s 6d; lessconditioned four-year-old steers, £8 10s to £9 9s: tliree-year-old steers, £7 JOs to £8 7s 6d; two to three-year-old steers, £6 10s to £7 7s 6d: yearling to IS-month-old steers, £5 to £6 7s 6d; calves, £2 2s to £3; small calves, £1 5s to £2; cows with calves, £7 to £lO 10s; heavy bulls, £S 10s to £l2 7s 6d;: sound young herd bulls, £S 8s to £l6 16s; other bulls,

£3 10s to £7: s ,^ e b to' £1 Os 6d. all 10s: "here more pips than counted There Monday and prices ?e S anLd we?S fully eouat to Westfield.

BUTTER-FAT BASIS CHEESE PRODUCERS’ PAYMENTS Press Association PALMERSTON N.. Wednesday. A conference of Shorthorn brewers was held to-day at the Koyal bhou. A resolution was passed urging the dairy division to bring into vogue - more equitable system of payment foi milk supplied for cheese making, in view of the fact that the recent Hawera tests proved that payment on the butter-fat basis was equitable. AUCTION NOTES Wiliam A. Horne. Ltd., will offer by public, auction at their rooms, Horne s Buildiags, corner High Street and A ulcan Lane, ‘to-morrow (Friday), at 1 p.m., a wooden house of 4 rooms and kitchenette, bathroom, porch, electric light and all usual conveniences, situated number 53 Burnley Terrace, Dominion Road, within 5 minutes’ walk to either Edendale or Dominion Road trams; also fruit farm, Forest Hill. Road, Henderson, comprising IS acres, 11 acres being in high grade orchard, including apples, oranges and plums. Buildings comprise s : roomed house with porcelain bath and basin, open fireplaces, hot and cold water, tanks and city water, and all other conveniences, with usual outbuildings, including large packing shed, etc. Messrs. Robt. C. Carr and Son will sell by auction at their rooms, 20 Swanson Street, at 12 noon, to-morrow, by order of the Public Trustee in the estates of John Barnes and James Butchart, a 3roomed cottage with 1\ acres of land at Takapuna, and a section at Glendowie containing 33.4 perches. At the same time a 6-roomed dwelling in Hutchinson Avenue, New Lynn, will be sold. George Walker, Ltd., wil sell by public I

auction to-morrow, Friday, at 11 o clock at the salerooms, 38 Queen Street, household furnishings, and. at 1 o’clock, boudoir grand Gors and Kalman piano and general furnishings.

LONDON MARKETS FOREIGN EXCHANGES British Official Wireless RUGBY, Tuesday

WHEAT CARGOES DULL (United P.A. —By Telegraph — Copyright) (United Service) LONDON, Tuesday. Wheat. —Cargoes are dull and mostly down 3d to 6d. Parcels are quiet at a similar decline. By the Ulysses and Themistocles (bags), and by the Port Napier (bulk), 47s 6d; by the Coptic, 47s Od. Liverpool futures: December. Os 4 7-Sd per cental; March, Os 4’jd; May, Os 4 3-Sd.

CUSTOMS RETURNS BEER DUTY LOWER Press Association DUNEDIN, Wednesday The Customs revenue for the , ended to-day was £72,051 ™ 0 “ lh C 55.321 for the corresponding lust year. The beer duty annumS??! £ C 0,069, against £ C 0,691. The was £1,453 and the petrol tax £4 £?? INCREASE IN CHRISTCHURCH CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday The total net Customs recejntT' Christchurch for the 10 months of .u year are £IIC. 000 less than tor the responding 10 months of 1927 and ty is a decrease in beer dutv 'for th. months of £2,500. The Customs reve„. " last month was £57,064, the fitnjJ , October, 1027, being £74,622. * fcr PETROL TAX FIGURES WELLINGTON, Wednesday The Customs revenue for Octns. 1928. was as follows, the 1927 figure? Wl given in parentheses: Net Cuahm,. £220,992 19s 2d (£208.062 4s duty. £5,217 12s Sd (£4.17S 19s 7dl ” Wr The motor spirit tax yielded £s ~ and the tyre tax £566 7s. ’ 1-5

Oct. 30 Oct. 25 Par. Montreal, del. . . 4.85 4.So 3-16 4.S66 New York. dol. . 4.S4 15-16 4.S5 1-32 4.866 124.15 124.21 Brussels, belga. S4.S9 34.S9 35.00 25.22 Amsterdam, fl. . 12.09$ 12.09 7S 12.10 92.6 92.46 20.35 20.43 Stockholm, kr. . 18.14 18.14 18.159 Oslo, kr 18.1!) Copenhagen, kr. 18.19 18.19 18.19 18.159 18.159 Vienna, sell. .. 34.49 Prague, kr 1635 1633 34.58$ 24.02 Helsingfors, m rk 1923 Madrid, pes. . . 30.10 25.22$ Lisbon, escu. .. 10* 3-S Buckarest, lei . S02$ Rio de Jan., mil. 52 9-32 Buen. Aires, dol. 47 7-16 — — 47.57d Calcutta, rupee 18 1-16d Shanghai, tael . . 31$d Yokohama, yen . 23 11-32 23 15-16 24.5Sd