FISTS OR BEER BOTTLES?
_4 THE AUSTRALIAN WEAPON. MELBOURNE. December ?» Following comment on the growing use of beer bottles as a weapon m street squabbles, the Ilemington branch of the Australian Natives As- - soeiation discussed tihe matter, and concluded that the fist, not the beer bottle, was still the national weapon of defence in Australia. A motion urging the Government to compel the use,of short-necked beer bottles,, thus making them useless t» weapons of defence, was defeated.
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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17941, 8 December 1923, Page 13
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