“DRY” BY 1923
A PROPHECY. (From Opr Own Correspondent.) LONDON, November 26. The Rev. E. O. Blamires has been lecturing in Devonshire. Taking New Zealand as his subject, he has dealt with the social experiments of the dominion. In the matter of temperance reform, he said, there was a race between New Zealand and America; the latter had taken greater strides and reached prohibition first. Referring to the no-license campaign in Scotland, the lecturer said there was no reason for disappointment at the work so far achieved. No finer first campaign victory had ever been witnessed. No-license in any town in New Zealand meant a reduction of crime to a quarter of what existed previously. In Rosyth, where he had been recently, the population was about 8000 or 8000. There were only two policemen, and the cells at the police station had never been used, because the town had insisted on no-licensc. His experience was that there was little or no poverty where there was no-license. He was sure that by 1923 New Zealand would be “ dry,” and it was his prayer that the Homeland would quickly follow in its train.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18141, 12 January 1921, Page 6
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