LICENSING QUESTION.
REPORT OX THE XEW ZEALAND SYSTEM. Received 12, 1 a.m. Brisbane, May 11. Mr. Banking's report on the licensing system of X'ew Zealand was made available to-night. It states that statistics in the Dominion and the eastern States' of the Commonwealth demonstrate that individuals year by year are becoming more temperate. Much, no douKt, remains to he done and may be done by legislative action, but he had very grave doubts as jto the effectiveness of but a partially preventative system, which, as its first uffect upon the consumer of liquor, arouses in his breast a feeling of defiance, a hungering after forbidden fruit, and a determination to secure the gratification of his appetite by foul or fair means'. As to the value of permanent reform of intemperate, or the encouragement of habits of abstinence among others, there was not lufficient evidence at present obtainable.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19090512.2.18.2
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 90, 12 May 1909, Page 2
Word count
Tapeke kupu
147LICENSING QUESTION. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 90, 12 May 1909, Page 2
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in