REMARKABLE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 21 January 1913, Page 4

REMARKABLE.

Sonic remarkable information regarding Australian liquor laws is jrathered by tho Sydney Daily Telegraph from a Canadian newspaper that has iust cow:' t•> hand.' This voracious journal, published in Brampton, a town of about 5000 inhabitants, •states: "The Australian liquor law is tho be.-t after all. Tn Australia they allow as many saloons as there are men willing to pay the 'registration fee. Every man who drinks, or expect-; to drink, in a sabon must, go to the City~Ha.il, and take out a license in the shape of a brass check, on which is stamped « number, and for this pays 5 dollar* a year, and must always carry it with him. Before he can get a drink in any saloon he must display that brass check. A barkeeper looks over his book and tallies his drink or drinks. Failure to do this, or selling a man a drink without having been shown the brass cheek means the absolute and actual closing of the saloon, and there is no appeal. Every morning a black-list is sent out from the. City Hall to each saloon, and woe unto any bar-keeper who sells a. drink to a mm w'io- > name is on that list. Now, yon. see, the revenue must be ten times great ".' than if only the saloon paid the license, for in that country, at least, there must be many drinkers, net so much, whisky, .because of .the climate, but of the light wines and beer. There is a public record of every man who takes a drink and the number of drinks be takes in the enur.se of a day, week, month or vear."