Temperance Notes.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume XV, Issue 4, 1 October 1924, Page 442

Temperance N otes.

(Contributed). A cable from Ottawa dated July 29th states that m Quebec the consumption of wine has increased, under Government control, 600 per cent. Spirits are said' to have decreased but to what extent is not given. Mr W. M. Hughes, ex-Premier of Australia, after he had visited America and had seen prohibition m operation alter his previous opinion about it and said that "nationally, socially and economically it had caused a transformation little short of miraculous. "' A, special pamphlet is being prepared by Dr. Platts Mills addressed to young women, dealing with alcohol from the racial aspect. The drug habit is causing concern m all civilised countries. It is worthy of note that m the United States the annual importation of opium which m 1915 was 471,0001b5. was reduced by 1922 to 136,0001b5., while the importation of coca leaves (for cocaine purposes) has fallen m the last three years about 50 per cent. This appears from the latest report of the' U.S. Public : Health ' Service; ; In the' 10,000 metres flat race at the Stacle de Cclombea, Paris, the winner, Ritola, a Finn, and Wide, a Swede '-.who ■ came second, are botlr total abstainers.