Magistrates may be gaoled, according to a law passed in the reign of Edward VI, which made it “a penal offence, punishable by imprisonment, for any person to solicit or induce any of the King’s lieges to abstain from alcoholic drink.” The law, it is stated, has , never been repealed, so that any Magistrate persuading a man to be teetotal is liable to imprisonment.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20295, 3 May 1934, Page 17
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