SYDNEY’S LIQUOR ACT.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XIV, Issue 854, 19 July 1906, Page 21

SYDNEY’S LIQUOR ACT.

The monthly reports of the Sydney police for May, respecting the operation of the Liquor Act, indicate (says the “Sydney Morning Herald”) that the new law is working admirably. In many respects they are repetitions of previous reports. Most publicans and the public appear anxious to observe the provisions of the Act, with the result that trading during prohibited hours and drunkenness on Sundays have decreased appreciably. One district in the metropolitan area reports that whereas the arrests for drunkenness on Sunday, and offences arising therefrom, during May, 1906, numbered 28, the arrests for similar offences during May last totalled only two. There appears to have been some increase in the sly-grog business, but the police have more time to deal with this phase of the question. The heavy fines inflicted on persons convicted of sly grog-selling have had a good effect in this respect.