PROHIBITIONISTS' TRICKS.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XIX, Issue 1071, 15 September 1910, Page 23

PROHIBITIONISTS' TRICKS.

A novel way to enforce prohibition has been discovered by the Texas prohibitionists under the FitzhughRobinson liquor law, which limits the number of saloons in each precinct to one for every 500 inhabitants. Fairfield, Texas, has been a dry town for some years, and went wet at a recent election. Applications were at once filed for all the available saloon licenses, and the applications of those filing first were approved. It was then found that the licenses had been issued to prohibitionists, and that the saloons were not to be opened and those who wanted to open saloons could not secure licenses.

This dodge, we learn, was tried on a N.S.W. showground quite recently, when the "wowsers” bought the hotel booth and turned it into a lemon squash and soft drink shop.

The death occurred the other day of Mrs. Johanna Moretti, proprietress of the National Hotel, Kumara, and relict of the late Antonio Moretti. Deceased was a native of Kilkenny, Ireland, and was 5 8 years of age. She was well-known in the Stafford and Goldsborough district, where she lived for years and where she lost her first Tiusband, the late Mr. Delacosta. Later on, after marrying again, she came to Kumara and took over the National Hotel.