LIQUOR CONTROL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16210, 7 December 1926, Page 10

LIQUOR CONTROL

SUCCESS IN CANADA LONDON, Oct. 22. A day when all Canada will adopt a system "of Government control of tho liquor traffic is visualised by Mr. Louis A. Tasc-hereau, Prime Minister of Quebec. He believes that the drink question has been solved by tho control scheme which was first introduced in his province and is now gradually spreading throughout the Dominion. Mr. Taschereau, who has come to London over the long-standing dispute between Canada and Newfoundland concerning the Labrador boundary question, said that the Quebec scheme of Government liquor control has succeeded beyond the most sanguine expectations. "Government control of the liquor traffic," he said, "has come to say in Canada. ' "In Quebec, the liquor traffic is entirely under the control of a commission appointed by tho Government. Liquor is bought by the Government and sold by them under stringent regulations. The result has been that drunkenness has been almost entirely suppressed, and the revenue has benefited by an increase of 20 per cent, "Spirits and wines are sold only in Government shops, which are open from !) a.m. to 5 p.m. Spirits can be bought only one bottle at a time, but wine can bo bought by tho shipload if desired. "Beer is sold by the glass in. taverns which are licensed by the. liquor commission. The licences may bo cancelled at any moment and without, warning or reason being given. "Hotels are not allowed to sell spirits, but wine can bo supplied with meals. "In the city of Quebec, a seaport with a population of 120,000, (he arrests for drunkenness average one and a half a day—a figure which compares very favorably with that of any ' dry' city in the United States." ■