5 APRIL 1930, Page 3

Liquor in the Dominions Last Saturday - Victoria, following the

example of Western Australia and New South Wales, rejected a " no licence ". proposal by a substantial majority. Canada, except for Prince Edward Island, has, of course, gradually departed from Prohibition in favour of forms of official control of the liquor traffic. It seems that the wave which washed America into the Eighteenth Amendment is everywhere receding.