A LURID PICTURE.
NAW ZEALAND'S LIQUOR LAWS. A VISITOR'S IMPRESSIONS. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copvrigut, Received May 12, 11.25 a.m. BRISBANE, May 21. Mr Lesina, a member of the Queensland Assembly, has returned from a visit to New Zealand. In an interview, Mr Lesina declared that the New Zealand liquor laws encouraged grog-selling and drunkenness, and increased perjury and corruption. They had also increased in a remarkable way lunacy, and developed, to an } alarming extent general disrespect of the law itself. The introduction of liquor into "dry" districts, Mr Lesina declared, was steadily increasing, and blackmail, terrorism, and the boycott were flourishing.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3188, 13 May 1909, Page 5
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103A LURID PICTURE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3188, 13 May 1909, Page 5
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