ALBERTA DROPS PROHIBITION
STATE CONTROL OF LIQUOR.
(UNITED PRESG AESUCIATIO!f. —COPIRIfiDT.)
(Alisrr.ALlAN-HEW ZEALAND C.'.DLB ASSOCIATION.) OTTAWA, sth November.
Alberta voted in favour of Government control of the sale of liquor, and the open sale of beer by licensed premises, by a majority of 20,000 against the Prohibition law, which, has been in force for seven years: The farmers, usually opposed to it, voted heavily for moderation. The only district favouring Prohibition was that of the Mormons of Cardston.
The figures are incomplete, but the result is clearly indicated. The legislators will iue2t as soon as possible to draft legislation. Prohibition will probably continue to be the law of Alberta, for several months.
Alberta, is the fourth Canadian province to revoke war-time Prohibition. ' . .
Manitoba, by. a, majority of 25,000 decided in a poll last June to adopt the system of Government sale of liquor, instead of complete Prohibition which was then law.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 111, 7 November 1923, Page 5
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