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the difficulty of obtaining liquor in Cambridge, 

 make ample provision before leaving Boston. 



Canada contains 1.4 persons per square mile, 

 and public sentiment is extremely favourable to 

 temperance legislation. An optional prohibitory 

 law is in force. Since the passing of the Act it has 

 been submitted to public opinion in nine cities and 

 seventy-three counties.^ It remains in force in one 

 city (Fredericton) and twenty - seven counties. 

 Fredericton has a population of 7000, and drink is 

 procurable in it.^ It is fair to add that in some 

 provinces, where the Act is not in force, other 

 prohibitive measures take its place. Nevertheless, 

 Canada presents the same spectacle as the United 

 States. Prohibition succeeds to some extent in 

 very thinly populated districts. Where the 

 population is at all dense it fails altogether.^ 



Most of the Australian colonies have a law of 

 Local Option in one form or another. Practically 

 speaking. Prohibition is nowhere enforced. 



In New Zealand the existing prohibitory law 

 has been adopted by only one district, Clutha, 

 which is very sparsely populated.* It is also 

 enforced in the " King Country," the inhabitants of 

 which are almost exclusively Maoris. The success 



1 "The Temperance Problem and Social Reform,'' pp.325-6. 

 ^ Op. cit. p. 341. 3 (9^ ^2/., pp. 326-46. 



* Op. cil., p. 362. 



