REPORT ON NEW ZEALAND SYSTEM.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 114, 12 May 1909, Page 5

REPORT ON NEW ZEALAND SYSTEM.

THE PROHIBITION LAW

[PEESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received May 12, 1 a.m.) BRISBANE, May 11. Mr Rankings report on the licensing system of New Zealand was made available to-night. The report states that statistics or the Dominion and of the Eastern States of the Commonwealth demonstrate that individuals year by year are becoming more temperate. Much, no doubt, remains to be done, and may be done by legislative action; but Mr Ranking has very grave doubts as to the effectiveness of a but partially preventive system, which as its first effect" upon the consumer of liquor arouses in his breast a feeling of defiance, a hungering after forbidden fruit and a determination to secure the gratification of his appetite by foul or fair means, as to the value of which in the direction of permanent reform of the intemperate or encouragement of habits of abstinence among others, no sufficient evidence is at present obtainable. --