» Figures from a Government Bloc Pvpook would seem to indicate tha Britain is going “dry" of its own ac (says a London paper of a re con ■•Sate) . At any rate, the official tig ure.s show a great decrease in tU -number of convictions for drunhon ness During 1918 there were on! on 07") convictions in England am compared with 46,410 convic lions in 1917, a decrease of 37.85 pe cent This decrease followed one . "q 7 781 or 14.88 per cent., in the pro ceding’ year. The 1918 total is th< ■iffwest recorded, and is 84.61 per cent Sly Kw total tor 1913.
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Waikato Times, Volume 92, Issue 14254, 3 January 1920, Page 5
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