DRINKING IN PARKS
MEASURES TO STAMP OUT SYDNEY PRACTICE.
The Sydney City Council is endeavouring to stamp out drinking parties in parks. The Lord Mayor, Aiderman Nock, states that an important duty of the City Council’s park rangers is to keep the parks free from undesirables generally and drinkers of methylated spirits in particular. In this work the police co-operated with the rangers who had been sworn in as special constables.
The Lord Mayor added that the last official return showed that within a fortnight 118 persons had been ejected from city parks for drunkenness. Of that number 70, including five women were suffering severely from drinking methylated spirits, a practice which was fairly common in Prince Alfred Park.
The park rangers endeavoured to prevent citizens from being molested in the parks by drunkards or undesirables. When a person was found drunk, or acting in a disorderly manner, he was ordered to leave the park, and if he, or she, did not do-so, an arrest was made. A special effort was made to have undesirables cleared out of the parks before the anniversity celebrations, and that had been largely successful. Now some of those people were coming back and congregating ns “drinking parties" during the evenings. That would be stopped by every possible means. The police authorities stated recently that special police patrol waggons and police cars visited all the parks and gardens about the city, usually twice a day. and any persons found intoxicated, or drinking there were removed to the nearest police station. The police say that in recent times there has been a marked decrease in the number of methylated spirit drinkers in the parks and gardens, but frequently 20 and 30 men and women are taken away when the parks are searched for undesirables. Small bands of men and women used to adjourn tc city parks from wine bars after 6 p.m. with several bottles of cheap wine These parties, however, were promptlj broken up by policemen in plain clothes.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 June 1938, Page 9
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