PROHIBITIONIST ABROAD

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 148, 19 December 1929, Page 21

PROHIBITIONIST ABROAD

MR. TODD'S IMPRESSIONS

Mr. Charles Todd, of the Todd Motor Company, returned by the Tahiti from a trip, during which he visited the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Belgium, Germany, and Austria. Mr. Todd was' entertained at tea by the Standing Committee of the New Zealand Alliance, and gave an interesting account of his travels. His keen interest in the liquor problem has led him to examine the conditions in the different countries, and he was struck with the poverty and degradation evident, particularly in the poorer quarters of the great cities in Great Britain. He had had opportunity of securing information at first hand, and .vhilst there was still a certain amount of drinking in the United States the conditions were improving from year to year, and there seemed no doubt that the Prohibition law would achieve a lasting triumph. In a personal interview with Mr. Henry Ford he had received the most emphatic endorsement in favour of the Prohibition law. He had not been impressed favourably with the so-called Government Control in Canada, and he was still as firmly convinced as ever that the abolition of the liquor traffic was the soundest solution of the problem, and expressed his intention of continuing to do everything he could in the interests of the New Zealand Alliance. Mr. Todd's past services on behalf of the Prohibition cause were fittingly emphasised by Mr. F. C. Spratt, chairman of the Standing Committee, who on behalf of the New Zealand Alliance tendered him a most hearty welcome on his return.