Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 April 1955Vol. XXV, No. 9

Grim Liquor Problem

p. 37 · Read in the full issue

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From Our Noumea Correspondent NOUMEA, April 1 CHARGED with stabbing her lover to death while she was under the influence of drink, a Loyalty Islands woman was sentenced at Noumea to three years’ gaol.

During the hearing of the case, the Procureur of the Republic (Attorney-General) strongly at tacked France’s greatest social problem—the excessive comsump tion of alcohol.

A grim picture was painted of the consequences of the evil in France as well as in New Caledonia.

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