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AN INTOLERABLE MENACE.

Sir,—Your lending article on Monday, under the above heading, was quite called for. The mere payment of a fine; of £!i for endangering people's lives Is absurdly lenient, and your proposal to punish drunken motor drivers with imprisonment, without' the option, of a fine, was quite reasonable. But, Sir, you <Jo not go far enough, Begirt at the'beglnning; That is the beginning when the man, or ' woman, takes the first glads. It is proved beyond question that very small doses—they' are not able to say how much—of alcoholic ll*uor has an Injurious effect on the hitoian system. Br. Vernon, who was'-working for' the Research Committee of the Central Control Board (liquor) in England, "found that as iott ii dose as 11.2 cubic centimetres of the drug' had an Injurious effect on the drinker, and that Was less than one-third of n fluid ounce of alcohol. In another case only four ounces of port caused a neuro-muscular reaction ttiat- was susceptible to the observers. No, I would go a step further thun you in regard to this menace. I would say that every man who run« a motor-car, or lorry, should be a certified te> tolaller. Ho would very soon be all the better for his enforced total abstinence, and bo'in good trim to vote for prohibition in 1922, This Ik no trifling matter. The moderate drinker says he will not give up his liberty to drink intoxicants. The public have tho right to say they demand liberty to use the roads with safety, unrestricted by drivers who are more or less intoxicated. How many accidents are the result of moderate drinking no one can tell, but observations have shown that there are far less when there is no liquor, tn dry America, for am, etc, G.H.M

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Taranaki Daily News, 5 August 1920, Page 2

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AN INTOLERABLE MENACE. Taranaki Daily News, 5 August 1920, Page 2

AN INTOLERABLE MENACE. Taranaki Daily News, 5 August 1920, Page 2

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