QUESTIONS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 75, 29 March 1919, Page 7

QUESTIONS

FOR THE SPEAKERS OP THE MODERATE LEAGUE. 1. To what extent do you approve or disapprove of such tactics as the notorious placarding of a sham Proclamation over the name of Dr. Vaiin'tin®? • . 2. Why do you persistently ignore the fact that though Invercargill is a “dry” town, the cases tried at the Invercargill law courts am to ft large extent drawfi from the “wet’’areas In. the neighbourhood t , /. 3. Will you explain why,, in -gompilr irtg your figures shoMngjhe number of criminal offences committed in various areas, you choose merely the particular items which favour yopr side,; and ca f e« fully Omit the following, which, as ytgi well know, would make your comparisons • look utterly ridiculous r—lndecent riotous .and offensive conduct; - obscene, threatening and abusive language; assaulting Or obstructing the police ; soliciting prostitutions ; vagrancy ; common assault and theft; and Jast,.but not least drunkenness? 4. ; Is it or is it not true that even if we omit drunkenness, the total number of arrests for Other ■ offences in 1914 works out at:-—Dominion 42.26, No-;Li-eense areas 19.32 per thousand: of population ? , .; - 6. Have you read tbe address by the Chief justice (Sir Robert,Stout!-'to the Graiid Jury at Masterton op 10th;$eptembier, mt, in which heßotates “Where ; liquor is openly sold, offerees against oqr. laws in .a. population about the same size are, about four times as numerous as in A arc no, licensed houses ? . Gan ypu . cOntrovqrt the Chief Justice's figures or impugn, his inferences ?1