AMERICAN PROHIBITION.

Otago Witness, Issue 3802, 25 January 1927, Page 7

AMERICAN PROHIBITION.

PREVALENCE OF BOOT-LEGGING. WELLINGTON, January 18. “Most people in America feel that The ‘wet’ provinces of Canada have solved the liquor problem in a much better way than the United States.” said Mr E. _F. Chese, a citizen of San Diego, California, who is interested in the Scrips Harvard Chair of newspapers, and is visiting New Zealamd on a health recruiting trip. He stated today that in the p evinces of. Alberta and British Columbia there were Government stores from where all liquor was procured. No drinking was allowed on the premises, and permits for a limited quantity per month were issued to each purchaser. The residents in the “wet” provinces seemed entirely satisfied with the system. “Bootlegging,” he added, was prevalent in the larger American cities,.and rival agents operated while machine guns were frequently used. Nevertheless, prohibition had been a'"fine thing for America and Canada, and the great ’ majority of the people were better off than they were _ in the days of the saloon. The Canadian system, however, in the “wet’’ provinces was superior and more conducive to law and order.