LIQUOR IN ONTARIO
"WET" POLICY ENDORSED _.
GOVERNMENT CONTROL.
(United Pres» Afsociatio_.^Copyright)' OTTAWA, Ist December. lii the General Election for the-On-tario Provincial Legislature, the Premier's Mri G. H. Ferguson's, Conservative Government, with its policy for the sale of liquor under Government Commission, as opposed to the present prohibitory Temperance Act, swept the province. With 110 elected out of a Legislature ;of 112 members, the state of parties i»*
Conservatives .....' 75 . Liberals ....-; 14 Progressives 11 Labour and others ...... 10 There are eighty various political affiliations pledged to Mr. Ferguson'■ policy. Since 1916 the Ontario Temperance Act has governed tho sale of liquor, which is only permitted , by medical prescription.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 134, 3 December 1926, Page 7
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107LIQUOR IN ONTARIO Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 134, 3 December 1926, Page 7
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