EFFORT TO DEPRIVE PILOTS OF LIQUOR
(Received November 29, 8.30 p.m.) TORONTO, November 28. Mr M. F. Hepburn, Premier of Ontario, replying to a temperance delegation’s request that liquors should not be available to pilots and others, as Canada will be the Empire aviation . centre, said that Australia and New Zealand permitted liquors to all flyers and, if denied the beverages here, they ’ would feel that they were in a ' strange land. He added that the enforcement of prohibition would require an army on the American border, from where there would be a flood of bootleg liquor.
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Southland Times, Issue 23987, 30 November 1939, Page 5
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