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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13233, 29 September 1908, Page 8

HOW THE BOYS ARE DEBAUCHED. WHAT THE liOOAL MAGISTRATE '•_,.■ . -SAYS.. ■:;■- ■-. ■■:-':/-:' The Police Court records are thfc worst enemies tho professional Prohibition ■agitators ha.ye to contend with. They simply refuse to bo brushed, asid-p with an airy way* of the hand.: i*V burton has been held up as a "clean"; district where the boy.3 can bo-saved from such temptations as exist in license areas. What do wo.find? Juvenile drinking is conspicuously rampant - in and frequently is mndo the rabject of Magisterial comment. On Thursday some youths were charged at Ashburton before Mr V. G. Day. 5.M., and Mr H. Davis, J.P., trith behaving in a threatening manner towards a constable and were convicted: "Mr" Day saii that the worst feature* of *he case was that these boys, he oonld not call them anything eke. had obtained liquor, and 'without diluting it. drank it, to their injury. They loitered about the streets, and beloajrclto what was known ns the 'push.' He would do iiis best to put a Etop.to sre'h practices, and woui-d fine cacli 20s and coats."' '' • '■ -'. -. ■'■. . ' , (At tho same sitting a man was fine*! for obtaining liqr.or. during, the currency cf a prohibition order.) ' Decs Prohibition prohibit? Well, not- in Ashburton,' nor. any whore' etes'-m s?jto of what the Rev.-'Mr Palmer has to say to th© contrary.. . .-.•'■■ , Advt.