LIQUOR IN ONTARIO
PROHIBITION RESCINDED STATE CONTROL FAVOURED RESULT OF ELECTIONS By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Dee. 2, 10.5 p.m. Ottawa, De©. 1. In the general elections for the Ontario Provincial Legislature, Premier G. 11. Ferguson’s Conservative Government, with a policy of the sale of liquor wider a Government Commission as opposed to the present prohibitory temperance Act, has swept the province. With 110 elected out of a Legislature of 112 members, the state <f parties is: Conservatives ........... 75 Überale 14 Labour and others ....... 10 ~ There are 80 various political affiliations pledged to Mr, Ferguson’s policy. Since 1916 the Ontario Temperance Act has -governed the sale of liquor, which was only permitted by a medical prescription.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 December 1926, Page 7
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