LIQUOR ABUSES
“ HALF-HEARTED DRIVES ” Bv Telegraph—Press Association CHRISTCHURCH. November 20 “One cannot escape the opinion that for some reason—it may be a reaction to the general looseness of public opinion on the liquor question—the police drive against liquor abuses is half-hearted,” stated a passage in the Temperance Committee’s report, brought before the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church to-day. Whether that was the fault of the police, or whether the fault lay higher up, the committee did not know. But the fact of slackness seemed, to the committee, to be beyond question. The convener of the committee (the Rev. C. J. Tocker), was in communication with the Police Department on the matter.
The committee referred to the prevalence of after-hours trading and stated that a strongly-worded letter had been sent to the Prime Minister and the Minister of Justice in a hope that something might be achieved. There was no doubt that the evil was widespread and that it had increased considerably in recent times.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVII, Issue 21507, 21 November 1939, Page 6
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