NIGHT LIFE IN SYDNEY
PUBLIC DEMANDS REFORMS DRUNKENNESS AND CRIME (Rec. 12.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, March 4. Yielding to Press and public clamour the Premier of New South Wales, Mr W. J. McKell, today announced his intention of forthwith suppressing night clubs and sly-grog dens, which are reported to abound in the city. The newspapers recently exposed the growth of drunkenness both in Sydney and Melbourne and the unseemly conduct of men in uniform with girls of all ages in parks and gardens at night time. They also stressed the alarming increase of crime attributed to “brownouts” and excessive drinking. The newspapers, backed by temperance and patriotic bodies, have also begun an agitation for the control of breweries and hotels for the duration of the war on the ground that the drink traffic is seriously impeding the, war effort. Mr McKell said he would use his full power under Federal authority to pro-
tect the people, particularly the soldiers from the dens of iniquity which were rampant throughout the metropolitan area.
The police have been given drastic powers to quarantine premises where the illicit liquor traffic is carried on and also to prevent the deliveries of liquor to other than licensed premises.
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Southland Times, Issue 24685, 5 March 1942, Page 5
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