POISON LIQUORS
CHRISTMAS IN NEW YORK. EIGHT PEOPLE DEAD. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association (Received December 18, 0.40 a.m.) NEW YORK, December 16. Eight persons, including a woman, have died in the last three days from drinking poisonous alcoholic beverages. The Guy Health Commissioner, Mr Monaghan, has published a statement that -‘with the approach of the holiday season, and with the spirit of conviviality abroad, 1. think it well to issue a warning against the use of synthetic liquors. Everyone should avoid them. It must be generally known, after the time that has elapsed since the passage of the prohibition law, that the supply of good liquor is very limited.” There are 67 patients in the. alcoholic ward of the principal city hospital, nearly all dangerously ill. Eleven of them are women. The recent increase in the bootleg sales of fabricated liquors, the police believe, is due to the heavy seizures from runners by the Atlantic coastguards. and to the stormy weather making the landing of good liquors from abroad unusually difficult. The police have made one arrest, of the proprietor of a saloon, from which it is believed poisonous liquors were emanating.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 12015, 18 December 1924, Page 6
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193POISON LIQUORS New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 12015, 18 December 1924, Page 6
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