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The Liquor Problem at Canberra
Successful as it has been in the construction of buildings, the provision of essential services, and the accommodation of the people, the commission has failed to cope with a problem that is perplexing the Territory. This (says a correspondent) is the liquor traffic. The sale of liquor is prohibited, and the commissioners are known to favour the holding of a local option poll to decide whether the prohibition shall continue. Under the present system hundreds of pounds worth of liquor is brought into the Territory every week, some of it from the neighbouring New South Wales town of Queanbeyan, and some of it from farther afield. Queanbeyan is only nine miles from Canberra, and its hotels and picture theatre, but especially the hotels, are the architectura
