TEMPTATION IN NO-LICENSE AREAS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 83, 5 October 1910, Page 8

TEMPTATION IN NO-LICENSE AREAS.

» Concerning the recent statement of Mr. V. G. Day, S.M., that there is more temptation to drink in no-license than in license areas, the Minister of Justice secured reports from police inspectors. This evidence, in the main, does not biippoit the Magistrate's assertion.

An elderly man with a swag on his back, and apparently the worse , for liquor, had a narrow escape from being cut to pieces by a railway engine at the Dunedin station late on Saturday night. The 11.15 p.m. train for Port Chalmers had just departed, and the 11.10 p.m. train engine from Mosgiel was returning past the station to the engine-shed. The engine was travelling at a rapid pace, when Mr. G. B. Neale, who was in charge of the station, observed the swagger walking on the line a few yards ahead of the locomotive. Noticing the condition of the man and the futility of any attempt to warn him of his danger, Mr. Neale, with a .signal lamp in his hand, jumped down from tno railway station platform, and. rushing between the swagger and the approaching engine, succeeded in catching the attention of the engine-diivtr, who promptly brought the engine to a standstill not more than ten or a dozen yards from the trespasser When the man was questioned, it was found that he was very deaf as well as muddled. The Carterton Gun Club has applied for the New Zealand Gun Club's clay bird championship for 1911. and offeied to hold a £50 match on the day preceding the championship. A champiouship gold medal is also promieed..