A PROHIBITION RESULT.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XV, Issue 868, 25 October 1906, Page 21

A PROHIBITION RESULT.

Some uneasiness has been occasioned residents on the North Road (says the “Southland Times”) owing to the practice of numbers of purchasers of beer at the depots of drinking to excess on the roadside or in vacant sections. Every evening, and' more particularly on Wednesdays and/ Saturdays, partially intoxicated persons may be seen on the main thoroughfare between Waikiwi and Invercargill. On Wednesday week last the police arrested two young men who had over-indulged. One had helped himself so liberally from a keg which he and his companions had removed to the rear, of All Saints’ Church, that he had to be conveyed to town in a cab. The other was

found singing and in other ways trying his voice at North End. His explanation was that he had been persuaded to take a glass or two of a beverage by some strangers.