MORE MUNICIPAL WARNINGS AGAINST ALCOHOL.
The Tunbridge Wells and Liverpool Councils can now. be added to the long list of municipalities which have adopted and posted placards calling the citizens' attention to the evils, of. indulgence in alcoholic liquors. The Liverpool poster states that the habit of drinking to excess "leads to* the -ruin of families, neglect of social duties, disgust for work, misery, theft, and crime. The records of every tribunal Turore this. It leads to the hospital and -'luiMitic asyhinn, i»v«8 tJ»© way *© consumption, and aggravates «11 sorts of diseases." . The deplorable effects of parental intempejcanpe on children are strongly emphasised, and also the increasing mortality among infants born of drunken mothers.' The action of such -large cities as Glasgow, JLeeds, and Liverpool should stimulate i» further action those councils which, -though in sympathy -with the -poster, -have not -adopted it because of the threats of tibe liquor trade to test the legality of -payment out of the xates.— Light, April 7, 1906. .
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Otago Witness, Issue 2735, 15 August 1906, Page 80
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