DRINKING IN NEW YORK.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 23, 26 December 1925, Page 7

DRINKING IN NEW YORK.

BIG INCREASE EXPECTED

NEAV YORK, Dec. 24. It is expected that during the holidays there will be more drinking than ever sinco prohibition came into force. The new Federal enforcement policy frowns on tho arrest of petty offenders, believing that the 1925 Congressional enforcement appropriation of 50,000 dollars would be better spent in discovering the source of supply of “bootleg” wares than in purchasing evidence against hotel and cabaret patrons, who are joyously surttrised, since local enforcement is thereby left to the State municipal authorities, and New York repealed its State Enforcement Act several years ago. The padlocking of numerous cabarets by Federal agents is not effective, as a greater number of new establishments are opening constantly, and the force of enforcement agents is far too small to permit the stationing of one at every night cjub for the detection of liip-flask carriers. Celebrants are the more reckless through knowing that the House of Representatives lias approved tho appropriation of 250,000 dollars for the purchase of “evidence” during 1926, when conviviality will be more restrained.—A. and N.Z. cable.