INSIDIOUS ARGUMENTS.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume IX, Issue 675, 12 February 1903, Page 20

INSIDIOUS ARGUMENTS.

The Chief Justice, Sir . Robert Stout, having furnished the enemies of til® Wanganui River tourist traffic with arguments, is endeavouring to aid the prohibition fad further by an attempt to show that the number of people going to Rotorua would not be diminished if no-lieemme were carried. Speaking to a newspaper interviewer at Wellington, he said :— ’ “ There are no fewer than twenty-din boardinghouses and three hotels in th® township. There is also accommodation at Whakarewarewa. About three-fourths of the visitors stayed at the boardinghouses. “ What struck me about that was that we need not be alarmed about the ■■■ cry that people will not visit out tourist resorts if there are no hotels at which they could get liquor. In this connection it mav be worth mentioning also that 1 staved at an hotel at Wairakei, and that while there I noticed that not one-quarter of the guests took liquor. It does not seem necessary, therefore, to consider th© occasional tourist in dealing with our liquor question.”