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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXIV, Issue 17732, 4 December 1919, Page 2

ITS EVIL EFFECTS. . v (TO THE EDITOR.) Sir,—l notice the Rev. John Bawson has a good deal to say on one side of this question, but Mr. C. S. Smith, the well-known Canadian journalist, who arrived in Sydney the other day, told how the Commissioner for Prohibition in Canada (himself a former Prohibition leader) had himself confessed to haying made wholesome illegal importations of liquor on his own account. Mr. Smiths aid: The prohibition law has instituted, countless evils of the worst type. Men given to intoxication before prohibition get intoxicated now. If they cannot get alcoholic spirits they drink substitutes like methylated spirits and perfumery with a "kick." Illicit stills are in full operation, and the police force has. had to be largely increased to cope with the evils'of prohibition. '■' A corporation imports illicit car-loads of whisk oy and is fined two hundred pounds, as a corporation cannot be imprisoned; but a man who is detected in possession of a drop of liquor in Canada is sent to gaol for six months and thus made a criminal." The Auckland Herald of August 14 has an interview with Mr H. P. Williams, who returned by the Makiira after six months in Canada and America. He says: "As a life-long abstainer I have come back bitterly disappointed with what I saw in regard to Prohibition in Canada and America. In Canada the whole thing is a farce. The local doctors in Winnipeg issued over twenty-three thousand prescriptions for from one to' six bottles of spirits-each." s What is the effect of .Prohibition on public morality in America? The Congress that ratified Prohibition and have since eliminated its drastic proposals at the same time legalised Sunday professional sf>ort, i.e., baseball horse-racing, cycle meetings, and Mr Williams concluded, "I found no great difficulty placed in my way in getting liquor in any of the States I visited." Furthermore, Mr E. W. Mager, General Revenue Agent for America, in his report on the "Bone Dry" States, says. "Your Government officers are now destroying stills at the rate of 400 per month, and 'moonshine' whisky at the monthly rate of twenty-seven thousand gallons. It is very improbable that your revenue can seize as milch as ten per cent, of all the illicit product, so that there must be consumed of that product some twelve million quarts a year." ■ "Salvation by Legislation" is a booming craze in America. Prof. Fred W. Roman, Head of the Department of Economics at the University, of Syracuse, is carrying on a nation-wide Prohibition movement against tobacco, tea. and coffee, and is getting ,a tremendous following. The Americans are temporarily mad with fanaticism of all kinds. "So." Mr Williams concludes, "let us ha\ re the legalised trade, bearing revcenue to the State, as against this illicit, non-revenue-prodticing moonsliining so prevalent■.in America."—l am, etc., C. (!) I VOTE FOR NATIONAL CONTINUANCE. (7\ • i/ATrj r*An matiaivt*' nn'AuiniTifA^ \6) I,y vr i i-f i A/1V nri* i\Jl\tllL4 i IWrtIILJM I IVIV Strike Out the TWO BOTTOM Lines. —ADVT.

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CLAIM FOR SHEEP. .„. ~ » . QUESTION OF OWNERSHIP,^ The attention of his Honour Sir W. B. Edwards was occupied yesterday morning at the Supreme Court with hearing an adjourned case concerning a claim arising out of the disastrous fire in the Raetihi-Wai-marino district in March of last year. The plaintiffs were a firm of farmers in Raetihi known as Mitchinson Bros, and Bott. The defendants were the Otaihape Farmers' Meat and Produce Co., Ltd. Mr Blair, of Chapman, Skerrett, Tripe and Blair, of Wellington, appeared for the plaitiffs. The defendant company was represented by Mr Hutton, of Messrs Marshall, Hutton, and Izard, of Wanganui.' The statement of claim alleged that on 18th March, 1918, the plaintiffs sold to the defendant company 272 mixed sheep. The sheep were yarded, but before the sheep could be taken away the fire occurred, and swept plaintiff's farm and yards. A considerable number of sheep were destroyed, and of the surviving sheep, 129 were subsequently taken away by defendants' agent and defendants paid £219 18/ for the sheep. The plaintiffs now claimed £242 4/3, price of the balance of the sheep, 143 in number, which it was alleged by plaintiff's defendants had agreed to purchase the day {before the fire. Mr Hutton applied for a non-suit on the ground that there was no proper writen contract of the transaction. The memorandum produced was. not in accordance with the evidence, and did not disclose the terms of the contract. The prices quoted in the memorandum were not the same prices as were stated in the evidence of Mr Mitchinson. The memorandum was not only defective, but it was also erroneous. There was no proof that the sheep mentioned in the memorandum were the sheep which passed in the contract. Where sheep are sold at different prices for different classes it was necessary to have the specific numbers of each class and the allocated price of each class, and in this contract these things were not definitely and specifically stated. After hearing discussion on the master, his Honour disallowed the non-suit, and evidence was taken, after which his Honour reserved judgment. WANGANUI HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. <». —, —__ HOME INDUSTRIES SECTION. The Society's Summer Show takes place on Friday next in the Drill Hall. Entries close to-morrow with the joint hon. sees.. Mrs E. H. Cuisted oi\ Mr H. J. Robertson, care Rice and Co., Avenue. Messrs George and Kersley have given a special prize for most points in the Home Industries Class, which includes bread, white and brown cakes, scones, plum puddings, rolls' pastry, bottled fruits, etc. Good prizes have been allowed for this section and good, competition should result. The secretaries will supply schedules on application. g; ... —— *— ■; i i.i« — Year after year brings increasing proof of the superiority of SHARLAND'S Eaking Powder—the most economical compound on the market. CtriJctren like WADrrs? WQJ?.M FiOfi ~«ur« and certain. F-ric© 1/6. t

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