ENGLISH NATION.
...."■'■'■■■ A: .A. LONDON, Nov. 8. ' Two headlines -in' to-day's London papers read "England Sober. V NatidllBesty Figure^ fbr ■ Fifty '■ Years," and "Fewer Lunatics. First :Recoi'd Decline in Fift/.YeaiV' V :'! "■''. .' '*'.■' ". "'r Figures covering -England^ and .Wales shew *84,191.'-' convictions' for drunkenness, being 55 per cent. belo\v* 1913, the lowest record Ifor half- a _ century. - -The decline •beganV"in':*the:*'latter morith.' of J.914-: and contirined'ytff be . accentuated throughout 1915 and!" 1916.V These arerecognised as' remarkia'ble figures * even when allowance is. made for. n^en absent in the various fields of war. * !!' The number of ;li_eh_e;d- premises for the sale of intoxicating .beverages in . I England and,. iVVales, is, oyer ..80,000, so j that the preseritV-figui'es but about one convictionlfpr^e^ery.license.ii^.y,,-"- - !
'Ther ca_se^aew_J ,___. this issue .accredited tp' tlie fcpndbti Tlme| ha^,.appeare4 lq tnat Jourijal, ■>ut 1 6i^ly whore, expressly s t fitted ts soon ' news tb* Editor It. opinion of tb» Tlhm.l
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14492, 2 January 1918, Page 3
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