DRUG MENACE.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18725, 23 June 1926, Page 12

DRUG MENACE.

FURTHER ALLEGATIONS. ANOTHER SALVATION ARMY OFFICER. A {rcsh contribution to the alarming stories recently published on the drug menace has been made by Captain Taylor, a Salvation Ariny officer at Invercargill, who declares emphatically that arug-takmg is prevalent in many parts of i\ow Zealand, and that drug addicts Have little difficulty in obtaining -f e 'have read accounts in all the leading newspapers from Auckland to lnvcrcargill,'aiHi to say the cast ot it, ; they are contradictory. lfae part of the statements attributed t%j Colonel Knott did not come, from lum., at all," said Captain Taylor The Colonel was merely- the--mouthpiece ot an onicer of high standing in the Aimy, and if I were to mention his name you would realise that"he was.perfectly reliable and one who would not dream of making such a eensational, -charge without sufficient justification.. A; point had been;.raised,./however, that Li' Colonel Knott had been m. New Zealand for only three months, lys knowledge of the subject must still be limited. As "a" matter' of fact, the Colonel had had - many -Teat*' experi-ence-of this type, of work in. the Last, the United States, and other parts of the world, arid surety .he was entitled to speak. But.the true.portion was that in. making .the allegations he. was advised-by. ' Referring to the" attitude df . social workers Howards rth&story;; the 'Captain said that a great number of interviews had been published, but it was noticeable that all. the denials came from one particular section:". When one,:.knew a little of 'these ' people" ayd their methods one was not surprised M the statement.. Their ideas .and ideals ot what was right, and' what waswrons: were vastly different from those of other people. On the other hand there werfe miny people from Aiicklnnd to Dunedin who were niost reliable and experiennncl. and who could give testimony that conditions were much worse than the aw""c .person pver dreamed. Tt was-a well-known fact VM to-day vice was more rampant, thnn ever before in the historv of the .country. ..