INCREASING DRUNKENNESS.

White Ribbon, Volume 43, Issue 511, 18 May 1938, Page 4

INCREASING DRUNKENNESS.

Visitors to our Dominion have l»een comment niu U| on the inm-ase of drunkenness. A London buslnese man mid he was aurprlsed at the amount of Innklng iiermitted in Nee Zealaad lance ba Ik. Noa here at Mesne, he said, would ■ gli i i oming oui «>t i lain" hall and putting a bottle to In-r lipM on the afreet, be ssen. Tile police rould not allow it. There were not sufficient New Zen landers lo mi one English City, >»t drunkenneaa eraa mon frequent, it waa possible t<. ill <la\ in London ami not s«-e .< drunken person son Uowrlng afcao comments on Ins Cact that he had obsarved mon- drunkenneae In New Baa hind than in- had in Bngrland Hon R Bempla ejueetioned this atateemnt ami said there w«-i. fewei committed to gaol lor drunkenness than formerly. The comparison "- Hit ■ (air ana, If wc read our daily paperi I I must note that magistrates are not (rrtimitting young oeYendera to gaol for dramkan- ■ patting'them on probation To aaaka the comparison fair. these ahould have been tmiuded.