A STATEMENT CORRECTED.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXXI, Issue LXXXI, 14 May 1920, Page 5

A STATEMENT CORRECTED.

WELLINGTON, May 13. Apropos of the statement credited to General Booth and recently cabled from Australia in respect to prohibition, Commissioner Hoddier has received a cable from the General's secretary correcting the reported opinion as follows :—

"A"sked if prohibition was shortly probable in the United Kingdom, the General expressed doubt as to the possibility of enforcing so great a change on one section of the population vniess it was carried by such an ove"r-,vCalming majority, as seems improbable at present."