ANZAC DAY.
STRONG PROTEST BY A MAGISTRATE. Mr Frazer, S.M. at Auckland, said at the Police Court: “On the afternoon of Anzac Day 1 saw more drunk men about than 1 lmve seen for years past. It is disgusting the way the returned men are allowed to get drunk, and I guarantee that 99 per cent, of them get drunk in the bars. 1 am not personally inclined to take a harsh view of the* liquor business, hut what 1 saw that day, a day which was more or less a solemn occasion, is the sort of thing that will bring prohibition quicker than anything else.” His Worship went on to urge the putting of hotel bars out of bounds. Similar scenes were enacted in Wellington, where the Anzac Dinner was marred by disorderly condnct of men under the influence of liquor. If the few soldiers who so tar have returned have been so subjugated by drink that they cannot lot it al me on an occasion so sacred as a dinner to the memory of the brave who fell on that historic day, what will he the state of our Dominion when war is over and all the forces return? Must we not b* more than ever determined to close .ill hotel bars “before the hoys come home”?
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White Ribbon, Volume 23, Issue 275, 18 May 1918, Page 9
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219ANZAC DAY. White Ribbon, Volume 23, Issue 275, 18 May 1918, Page 9
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