THE PROHIBITION FARCE.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XVIII, Issue 1856, 1 September 1923, Page 5

THE PROHIBITION FARCE.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —In a recent issue of your paper I noticed an article on King Country licenses by Mr A. A. Lissaman, and I am in a position to prove that Mr Lissaman quoted facts in connection with no-license in the King Country. Now, Sir, seeing that the so-called pact with the natives has been broken by the granting of license in certain parts of the King Country some time ago, I, for one, want to know why the Prohibitionists are attempting to deprive the nolicense portion of the King Country from having the same privilege as the portion where licensed houses have been established for some time. Further, I say that before the licenses were granted in the portion of the King Country that I refer to, illicit distilling and sly-grog selling were carried on wholesale. Now the Prohibitionists are raising a howl about a. so-called native pact that never served its purpose and has been dead and buried years ago. As far as universal prohibition is concerned, its death knell has already sounded, for prohibition, with its attendant evils, is a curse in any country.—l am, etc., Aria. F. C. STUART.