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TEMPERANCE LEGISLATION. REPORT ON IHE DOMINION LAWS. GRAVE DOUBTS AS TO THEIR EFFECTIVENESS. By Telegraph. — Press .Association. — Copyright. BRISBANE, 11th May. The report prepared by Mr. Ranking, senior Police Magistrate in Brisbane, on the licensing system of New Zealand, was made available to-night. It states that the statistics of the Dominioa and . of the Eastern States of the Commonwealth demonstrate that individuals year by year are becoming more temperate. ?.Juch no doubt remains to be done, and may be done, by legislative action, but Mr. Ranking states that he has very grave doubts as to the effectiveness of such mea&ures. They form but a partially preventive system, which, as its fiist eifeefc upon the consumer of liquor, arouses, in his breast a feeling of defiance, a hungering after forbidden fruit, and a determination to secure the gratification of his appetite by foul means or fair. As to the value of the New Zealand system in the direction of securing the permanent reform of the intemperate or the encouragement of habits of abstinence among others, there is not sum- ; cient evidence at present obtainable.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 111, 12 May 1909, Page 7
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187AS OTHERS SEE US. Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 111, 12 May 1909, Page 7
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