THE FEBRUARY DRINK RECORD.
TO THS KDITOESir, —Herewith is the customary monthly drink record compiled from the columns of tho two local papers. The • bulk of these took place in Dimed in and suburbs, but whatever is chronicled in the papers wherever it happened is included. It will bo scon from tho list that tho figures for tho last nine months come to no less a total than 1,366. It is safe to say that well over 1,000 of these occurred in Dunedin and suburbs alone, and also that they are not a fifth part of the happenings through drink. The figures axo:—Deaths through drink 5, dangerous assaults 7. prohibition orders 9, theft 12, attempted suicide 1, indecency and obscenity 6, ruined lives 3, pensions refused 2, cruelty to children 3, assaults (ordinary) 4, vagrancy and idle and disorderly 4, drunkenness (five women) 88, other offences 15; total for February, 159; total for last nino months, 1,366. The court figures of all the No-license areas (except Invercargill so far) prove that such coses as the above are reduced to less than one-fifth of their former volume. This has really also been tho case in Invercargill, but so far the court figures do- not-show it. I am, etc., G. B. Kicuolls. March 4.
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Evening Star, Issue 12061, 4 March 1907, Page 1
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