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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2188, 12 May 1908, Page 3

On her last trip to Vancouver the R.M.S. Moana carried 11 Hindus from Suva, and a German from Sydney. '.All were for a time refused , a landing. One Hindu succeeded in passing the education test, hut was detained under another clause of the Act. It was a couple of days before they were permitted to go ashore. “Asiatics are not wanted in Canada now?” declared one of the Moana’s officers in Sydney, recently. “There are hundreds of,.them walking the streets, half-starved, and yet they are pouring in. " There are no channels through which-they can get food, and if things are to go on like this, the influx of aliens must be stopped if crime is to be prevented.”

NO-LICENSE THE BEST REMEDY FOR THE EVILS OF DRINK. IS NOT STATE CONTROL. OR MUNICIPAL . CONTROL.. OR COMPANY CONTROL, PREFERABLE TO NO-LICENSE? npHE chief advantage claimed for I these schemes is the elimination of private gain from the sale of Drink. The system was first- tried in Gothenburg in 1565, and in Stockholm in 1877. After more than 40 years’ testing, it should he possible to estimate the results. What are they? There is more drunkenness to be seen in Stockholm to-day than in most European cities. The convictions for Drunkenness in towns under the Gothenburg system in 1906 was 37 per thousand, as against 9 per thousand in London and about 11 per thousand in New Zealand. It does not look as though any system of State or Company control would solve our difficulties in New Zealaud.