DRUNKENNESS IN THE STREETS.
TO THE EDITOR OF TUK PRESS. Sir,— i am not in the habit of parading the streets at night, much lese looking for drunks, but I cannot help being surprised at, the number of inebriates I noticed when I happened to bo out on two or three nights lately. One very sad case was that of a young woman (who I afterwards learnt was married, and had several children) who, most helplessly drunk and using some very bad language, was being assisted, if not dragged, along the public thoroughfare. I had been led to believe by a. section of the press and some of the- public (especially the Licensing Committee), that with improved hotels, structurally, there was also to be an improvement in the liquor traffic iiself, but its respectability is, apparently, just, a.-* hard to discover now as it ever has been. The only effective reform is to reform it out of existence—Yours, etc., NEW ZEALANDER.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 11690, 17 September 1903, Page 6
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