Urge Prohibition For Empire Pilots
TORONTO, November 28. The Premier of Ontario (Mr M. F. Hepburn), replying to a temperance delegation’s request that liquor should net be made available for pilots and others, since Canada will be )an Empire aviation centre, said that Australia and New Zealand had permitted liquor to all their airmen. If they were denied beverages here “they would feel they were in a strange land.” Mr Hepburn added that the enforcement of prohibition would require “an army on the American border, whence bootleg liquor would flood.”
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Northern Advocate, 30 November 1939, Page 7
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