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...../ would be much interested in following up your campaign to bring about temperance instead of an unworkable prohibition." Prime Minister of Quebec antes ia i lie N.Z. Moderate League r (Facsimile of Letter). OFFICE OF THE PRIME MINISTER, Province of Quebec, SEPTEMBER Twentieth 1922. D* M. Findiay, Esq., " President, The N.Z. Moderate League, 145 featherston Street, Wellington. «SW ZEALAND. Dear Sir, I am sending under separate cover, one copy of our Liquor Act together with an article which I had recently the occasion to write on thd operation of our new Law, which may supply some of the information you require. A report of the Liquor Commission will be submitted to the House, upon the opening of our next session the 24th of October. I shall make it my duty to hava a copy of that report mailed to you as soon as it 1b made publio. In the meantime official statistics show substantial reduction in convictions for and that the amount of the liquor consumed by our population is less than that consumed in some of our, dry Provinces. You may have a better idea as to this after reading two paragraphs of an article recently published in the Ottawa Journal a newspaper which had been favourable to prohibition until it proved to be a failure in the province of Ontario.! \ i If y:ou were in nJed of further information, I should be pleased to forward it to you® ' I have read with special interest the leaflet issued by your League relative to State Control, 1 and I beg to thank you for having sent it to me. I would be much interested in following up your campaign to bring about temperance instead of an unworkable prohibition. ; Yours oincerely, ■All.' Jliii'l'll "SSSS Th© extract referred to from the u Ottawa Journal w : It it of interest to note that, large a* the total tales of the Quebec Liquor Commission may appear to have been during its first year of operation, they represent only'the equivalent of the talet of one liquor houte at the time the trade was in the hands of commercial firms.i The Journal hat received this infohnation from an auihoritative source. When it is noted that in 1920 there existed in Montreal 14 wholesale and 25 retail establishments, some idea may be obtained of the enormous difference in liquor consumption that hat taken place in the short space of one year. The report of the British Columbia Liquor Commission states that their total sales during the past year amounted to sl4,ooo,ooo—one million fcss than the sales of the Quebec Liquor Commission, and yet the population of British Columbia is only one fifth the population of the Province of Quebec, and there is bo evidence that the number of tourists it greater in the Pacific Province. A comparison with Manitoba, which is supposed to be 'dry' is still more remarkable. In a despatch published in the newspapers a couple of months ago, it was reported that, during the year, 1,211,461 prescriptions for liquor were issued. This it almost two pre* tcriptions for every man, woman and child in the Province. The amount of liquor covered by these prescriptions was 510,993 gallons, equivalent to 3,065,978 quart bottles. Taking a quart bottle at the very reasonable value of s4'oo as prices run to-day, it represents a value of $ 12,263,912. That is only about two million dollars less than thS sales under the open system of government sale in Quebec, and the population of Manitoba it one-fourth of that of Quebec. Our Prime Minister, Mr. Massey, has promised reformed liquor laws next session ———— The N.Z. Moderate League D. M. Findlsy, President. R. A. Armstrong, Dont, Sec. OAHTEHBURY EXECUTIVE: President, J. J. Dougoll; Chairman of Eieontiye, Dr. E. 0. LeTlnge; Yioe-Presidenta, J. Anderson (Senr.), Dr. Morten Anderson, Br. B. Anderson, Thos. Chapman, Sir Geo. Clifford, Dr. Gibson, Jno. Gfigg. Dean Harper, Geo. Harper, Geo. Jameson, Dr. Nedvrtll, Jos. Studholme, D. W. Westenra; General Committee, O. P. Hurray-Aynsley. Jno. Anderson (Junr.), E. H. James, F. DeTerell, W. I*. Herrlck, W. J. Hopkins, B. O. Bishop, A. HoKellar, W. E. Thompson, J. 3. Doagoll, SL Gresson, Frank Graham, M. S. Brown, J. 8. Guthrie, A. L. Oropp, J. B. Brown. J. A. Holmes, Jno. Dwyer, Prof. Bltrat, Dr. Levlnge, Dr. Jno. Guthrie, Geo. Hajrward, J. E. Cooper, W. 3. Crftoroft Wilson, B. W. Walker, Prof. Walli Searetary, A. H. IToeU, O&shel Street* Ghxtatohrooh. " Moderation is True Temperance. —Join The N 2.. Moderate League yak for State CormtoL 99 I vote for State Purchase 8 Control Your vote is wasted unless you strike oat TWO lines!