DRASTIC DECISIONS
TIGHTER LIQUOR CONTROL TN VICTORIA ; STRONG REPRESENTATIONS TO PREMIER. ABUSES AT THEIR WORST IN MELBOURNE. (Special P.A. Correspondent.) (Received his Day, 1.5 p.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Drastic decisions to tighten up Victoria’s liquor laws have been announced. Melbourne had, it is alleged, been the worst place in Australia for illicit drinking. It is now illegal to serve liquor to women under 21 years of age arid to male under 18 years, the onus of proof being placed on the licensee. Special steps will be taken to prevent the sale of cheap wines of high alcohol content. An additional 25 policemen will be appointed to supervise liquor I’aiding. Some 4000 people waited outside the office of Mr A. A. Dunstana (Premier) while a deputation asked for a more stringent enforcement of the liquor laws. One petition presented to the Premier was signed by 95,000 people frem all parts of Victoria. A report has been made to the Federal Government alleging excessive drinking, sly grog selling, profiteering and other “glaring abuses” of the abuses of the liquor laws. The worst abuses, it is stated, are to found in Melbourne. The report will be placed before the State Premiers’ Conference early next month.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 July 1942, Page 4
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