N.S.W. LICENSING POLL.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XLIX, Issue 148, 5 September 1928, Page 3

N.S.W. LICENSING POLL.

SIGN OF THE TIMES. UNFAVORABLE TO PROHIBITION. (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright) (Australian Press Assn. —United Service). LONDON, September 3. The “Daily Telegraph,” in an editorial, says: “The result of the Australian prohibition poll is a sign that the times are unfavorable to prohibition. It has proved a disastrous failure whore tried in Europe. In the United States it is as law without the force of law. In Australia it has been more heavily defeated in the States consulted than the advocates ever anticipated. Apparently the Commonwealth will he spared the experience of Canberra, which proved, as in Canada and New Zealand, that enforcement in provinces and districts is more farcical than nationwide. Meantime, drunkenness is visibly declining wherever there is a minimum of interference with private habits. Upon this, more than upon the schemes of regulation, the believers in true temperance found their hopes.”