A LURID PICTURE.
DRUNKENNESS, TERROR, AND CORRUPTION. (Received May 12, 11.25 a.m.) BRISBANE, This Day. Mr. Lesina, a member of the Queensland Assembly, has returned from a visit to New Zealand. In an interview, Mr. Lesina declared that the New Zealand liquor laws encouraged grog-selling and drunkenness, and increased perjury and corruption. They had also increased in a remarkable way lunacy, and developed to an alarming extent general disrespect of the law itself. The introduction of liquor into "dry districts, Mr. Lesina declared, was steadily increasing, and blackmail, terrorism, and the boycott were flourishing.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 111, 12 May 1909, Page 7
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94A LURID PICTURE. Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 111, 12 May 1909, Page 7
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