DRUNKENNESS AT ROTOROA

HOW THE DRY WAS MADE WET. INDUSTRY PROMPTLY SUPPRESSED. It! TELEGRAPH— PRIBS ASSO(UIION.> AUCKLAND, This Day. The Salvation Army officials in charge of Rotoroa Island, to which habitual inebriates are committed by the Court, have bean much concerned by the amount of drunkenness. All attempts to trace the source of the liquor supply failed, until a detective was engaged to watch the movements of the home. He found many of them keenly interested in gardening and unusually interested in the cultivation of parsnips, fiom which, it transpired, a wine of considerable strength was manufactured by a simple process. It proved such powerful stuff that those who drank .it almost immediately became hopelessly intoxicated. Needless to sa.y, the new industry was promptly _ suppressed, a.nd Rotoroa has resumed its reputation for dryness.