PROHIBITION ENFORCEMENT.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 12 January 1929, Page 5

PROHIBITION ENFORCEMENT.

ILLICIT LIQUOR SHIPMENTS. NEiGOTIATIONsTwITH CANADA FAIL. ..ited Pres* Association—By Electric Telegrapn Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) OTTAWA, Jan. 11. The ■ United States to-day failed to obtain the consent of the Canadian Government to a treaty for drastic efforts to suppress the annual hundred million dollar illicit liquor shipment from the Dominion. A conference between American and Canadian > ffieials here, extending over a period of several days, ended without result. The United States wanted ‘Canada to agree to refuse to issue papers to vessels' clearing for United States ports with cargoes of liquor. The American delegates departed feeling that Canadian opinion is that America must make a more strenuous effort to enforce ’her own laws to halt the smuggling before coming for help to a neighbouring country. N ATION-WIDE IN VESTIG ATT ON. ■ PROPOSED BY MB. HOOVER, WASIINIGTON, Jan. 11. Investigation throughout the nation into prohibition enforcement and the effect of the -Eighteenth Amendment of the Volstead Act with their relation to crime will be made bv President Hoover, reports the “New York World’s” correspondent.

It is indicated here to-day that Mr Hoover does not want a biassed report, therefore he prefers to name his own investigators to find the facts.

President Hoover’s friends assert that he has told members of Congress he has a definite plan to carry out, and has promised to name a commission to study the question in a thorough, e.a’reful, business-like manner.