TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT
CONDITIONS IN AMERICA The newly-elected president of the Auckland council of the New .Zealand Alliance, Sir George Fowlds, was installed at the last meeting of tho council.- / Sir George said, the temperance movement was suffering from the depression, but that did not affect the duty of those who believed in the righteousness of the cause to continue the efforts, Perhaps the worst result of tho depression was tho change which had taken place in the United States. This was due to the economic conditions and the insidious appeal which had been made to a suffering people that reversion to the licensed liquor traffic would lighten the burden of. taxation. Sir Georgo stated that he had crossed the "United States on 10 occasions, four times before - prohibition was carried and six times since. There could bo no doubt that prohibition had conferred enormous benefits on the people.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21577, 23 August 1933, Page 10
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148TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21577, 23 August 1933, Page 10
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