BRITAIN'S DRINK BURDEN.
THE PREMIER'S EXPLANATION.
Received April Bt'n/ 5.5 p.it;
LONDON, April 6
Mr Lloyd George, replying to a. deputation of the advocates of prohibition and Stato purchase, said the people were the only fores which could decide tho question of temperance reform. It would bo a national disaster to reinstate the liquor trade on its okl basis during demobilisation. He bimself never surrendered to threats. The Government would earnestly consider the question of control, realising the folly of any measures unless that had received tha general assent. It would be madness to put forth in the middle of the war any proposal defying practically the whole of organised labour.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 16949, 9 April 1917, Page 5
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111BRITAIN'S DRINK BURDEN. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 16949, 9 April 1917, Page 5
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