SWEDISH PROHIBITION.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIII, Issue 20, 6 January 1923, Page 3

SWEDISH PROHIBITION.

HOW THE WOMEN VOTED. That 57 per cent of Sweden’s women favoured Prohibition of the manufacture and sale of beverages containing ftiere than 2i per cent of alcohol, while 60 per cent of the men were against it, is now apparent from a further count of the votes cast at the recent liquor referendum which resulted in a victory for the wets, says the Stockholm correspondent of the “Christian Science Monitor.” Sweden now will continue the present rationing system, whereby the heads of families who prove that they arc respectable and self-supporting can purchase about a gallon of strong aquor per month while anyone can order drinks with meals under legal restriction at public restaurants. The final taublation shows that in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmoe, as well us in other cities and suburban districts, both men and women were strongly against Prohibition, while in the country districts in general, especially in the Northern' part of Sweden, both men and women were, as a rule, in favour of Prohibition. In the capital, for example, 90 per cent of the men and S 3 per cent of th£ women were against the proposed measure. This may be contrasted with a certain agricultural section, where 90 per cent of the women and 73 per cent of the men wanted 24 per cent drinks. It is interesting to note that the majorities of men and women were on the same side of the questioi in 15 provinces out of 25, while in the other 10 provinces the two sides of the family ncem to disagree in their taste for stimulants. That Swedish women do not neglect the ballot is proved by the fact that in Stockholm they outnumbered the men at the polls by more than 9000. And the showing for the entire country was 800,000 women as against 938,000 men.