RESULTS OF ALCOHOL.

Evening Star, Issue 15075, 6 January 1913, Page 1

RESULTS OF ALCOHOL.

TO THE F.PITOU. Hir,—-If one-thousandth part of the evil that> drink is deli m were caused b v "bad drains, c.r " the carelessness of public, servants, there would in. l a hue arid cry from our end of Now Zealand, to the other! Uiit here is n wrong and evil, as constant arid sure as a mighty liver, and our henltii authorities, our Press, and our Oovernment a-re apathetic and silent.. Why is this? Hi? net-ember drink Lilly is a, heavy one. Iho following arc the details:— s Drunkenness /]g Women 3, first offenders 18 ..." ... ... 21 Narrow escape death 5 Drench prohibition orders n Assaults, theft, stealing ! A 5 Prohibition orders (one. lad) g Attempted suicides 2 Attempted murder ' j Other items pj Total 115 Ninety-three of the above stand to the. discredit of the Dunedin district- Is it not- time that the authorities set about to find a. remedy for this dreadful dram on the. health and lives ol the community? A lad not out of his- teens had a prohibition order issued against him, in a licensed district, the number of lads with kens and demijohns of beer on the outward Dunedin holiday trains lately forebodes an e\d harvest, and many mined lives in the near future. During tho month two men attempted to commit .suicide, arid another to tiinidm- his wife. and. as an illustration ol tne law of evolution (onlv backwards) a drunken man with his sober monkey were arrested and locked up. in which case it womd appear that the monkev wa.s more the man of the,two. In the face of these things who will dare to wish the licensed liquor traffic “A prosperous new years'—l am. etc., C. Skokktahy, Temperance Deform Council. ■January 6.