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Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 138, 8 December 1921, Page 9

MORE THAN THEIR SHARE OF, CRIME. One-sixth of the population of New Zealand lives in No-license areas, and five-sixths live in License areas. If the whole Dominion was License, then we ehould expect .to find that the districts which, are now No-ljcenge would 'produce one-sixth' of the total convictions and committals for .crime. According to those who denounce Prohibition, we ouuht now to find that the No-license districts produce more fchanj their share of these convictions, for booze advocates' say abolishing booze increases crime. As a niatter of fact,' however, we find that it' is the wet districts that produce more than their share of crime in New Zealand. They should not have more than five times the number of convictions to be found in the No-license areas.- Let the following official statistics from Vol. l sof the Statistics for New Zealand speak for themselves:— 1920 — Convictions and - committals Wet Dry Wet Dry for the follow- Dist. Dist. Diet. Dist. I ing offences: More Less | ■ ■ \ . than share Murder and man- p.c. p.c. slaughter ... 27 1 17 80 Attempted suicide '39 2, 14 71 j Common assault; 559 43 11 57. Sexual offences 96 6 13 65, Against persons and property 3839 297 11 57 Forg'y ft uttering 98 3 17 82 Drunkenness ... 8169 344 15 75 Prohibition orders 1514 64 15 75 I Indecent, etc., behaviour - 1645 111 12 63 Breaches of Licensing Act '2524 88 16 80 Destitute persons, bastardy, etc. 1812 125 12 61 j Selling liquor without a He- ■ ense and other •'• revenue Jaw offences .... 159 28 210 [ Thus we see that in every case the wet districts produce more than their share of convictions and |Committals, and in' every case the No-license districts produce less—in some cases 80 per cent, less -than their share. If this happens under partial Prohibition—for liquor may be taken into No-license areas—is it not reasonable to sn'-ose' similar effects may be anticipated if. the whole of New Zealand is made dry under Dominionwide Prohibition?—N.Z. Alliance Publicity.—Advt. . (18)

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