“MOST DRUNKEN STATE”
NEW SOUTH WALES ALLIANCE’S , REPORT. By Telesraph—Press Association— Copyrlcu* SYDNEY, May 19. The annual report of the New South Wales' Alliance says;—“New South Wales is the most drunken State in the Commonwealth'. During 1913 the drunkenness convictions 'totalled 274, and other convictions in which drunkenness formed a part of the charge (including 4185 charges against women) 'total 32,458, as against 32,9/7 in 1912. But in 1913 "two thousand pledges were taken, when convictions were not recorded.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8737, 20 May 1914, Page 8
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