AMERICAN STATISTICS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18686, 16 October 1922, Page 10

AMERICAN STATISTICS.

TO THE EIIITOBSin,—ln your issue o? .the ll{h inst. “Continuance,’ quoting certain statistics with regard to San Francisco, printed in Current History, under the signature of Mr W. H. Anderson, of the Anti-Saloon League, says that Mr “Pussyfoot” Johnson and Mr Anderson contradict one another, and that the figures show under the “wet” regime fewer arrests for intoxication than under tho “dry.” There is just nothing to this—j ust x exactly a cypher, which is missing from the figures for 1917-18, which, instead of reading 5156, should read 50,156. The figures 7812 for 1929-21 are correct. Tho printer’s error is corrected in a reprint of the article issued in, pamphlet form which is on file in this office. A number of other errors are corrected, but I am concerned only with tho one above mentioned. Doubtless your correspondent and your readers will agree that this correction should bo as widely published as the assertion made by “Continuance.” It will be seen Mr Johnson, has not exaggerated the San Francisco figures.—l am, etc., J. Malton Murray, Assistant Secretary, N.Z. : Alliance. Wellington, October 15. PROHIBITION IN TOURIST DISTRICTS. TO THE KIJITOB. , Sm,—l have heard on very good authority that if prohibition is carried tho travelling public and tourist will not be able to obtain accommodation between Cromwell-and PemTircke—a distance of 40 miles, or between 'Pembroke and Arrow town-—about the same distance—as it would not pay to keep a hoarding house when everything is so high in price as it is, and when it is so difficult to got -Servants. It will be very hard, especially in winter, if people have to travel 40 miles without refreshments. VVe have tho best country in the world, and it will be a groat pity if people are to be carried away bv a few well paid foreign agitatois,— I am, etc.. Liberty. Cromwell, October 10.