"MOST DRUNKEN STATE IN AUSTRALIA".
TEMPERANCE ALLIANCE INDICTS NE .V SOUTH'WALES. By Tclefcrafcii—Press Assoe-iatjon-OopSriEht Sydney, May 19. Tho animal report of the Neiv South Wales says;—" New Sonth Wales is t-li© most rfainkon Stats in t-to Commonwealth, During 1913 the drunkenness convictions totalled 28,274, and. other convictions in which, drunkenness formed a part of tho charge (including 4183 charges against- women) total 32,458, as against 32,977 in 1912. But in 1913 two thousand pledges were, taken when convict-ions we» not- recorded."
In 1907 the majority in New South Wales for Continuance was 41,73.0; in 1919 tho majority increased to' 111,000; and in 1913 the majority for Continuance, was no less ihasi 13G.1G3. Spealdng at Enfield (N.S.W.) rcecntly, the president of ijte No-Licenso League admitted that Prohibition had received "a decided set-back" in the Mother State.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2153, 20 May 1914, Page 7
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