THE SALE OF WINE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 1 August 1911, Page 7

THE SALE OF WINE.

DEPUTATION TO MINISTER

BY TELEGRAPH—PBESB ASSOCIATION. WELLINGTON, Aug. 1. The evils arising out of the sule of Colonial win© in the North Auckland district were brought under notice of the Acting Minister for Justice to-day by a deputation from the New Zealand Alliance. The representatives of the Alliance said it was well known in the north that the wine-selling business had got entirely out" of hand, and was now one of the most pernicious things in connection with tne sale of liquor that was known in the Dominion. They were not able to estimate the amount of grapes used in the manufacture of wine, but it was suggested that the liquor was aoctored in the most outrageous manner, the result being the demoralisation of those who purchased it.

The Minister said that to a large extent the police reports bore out the statements made by the deputation, "t was difficult to provide sufficient police ,to control such a scattered district, cut he thought it was necessary to amend the law, which did not deal with the adulteration of wine, except when it was sold by persons holding a wine license, or in small quantities.