DEADLY LIQUOR

Manawatu Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 2560, 18 December 1924, Page 7

DEADLY LIQUOR

Dangers of Christmas Cheer

in U.S.A. ■

HUM row stocks badly

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[By Electric Cable —Copyright.] [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] Received Thursday, December 16. NEW YORK, December 16.

Eight persons, including a woman j, a vc died in the last three days from drinking poisonous alcoholic beverages. The City. Health Commissioner, Air Monaghan, has published a statement that; “With the approach of the holiday season, and with the spirit of conviviality abroad, I think it well to issue a warning against the use of synthetic liquors. Everyone should avoid them. It must be generally known, " alter the time that has elapsed since the passage of the Prohiibtion Law, that the supply of good liquor is very limited.” “There are sixty-seven patients in the alcoholic ward of the principal city hospital, nearly all dangerously ill, eleven being women. The recent increase in bootleg sales of fabricated liquors, the police behove, is due to heavy seizures from runners by Atlantic coastguards and stormy weather making the landing of good liquors from abroad unusually difficult. The police made one arrest of the’ proprietor of a saloon from which, it is believed, poisonous liquors were emanating.