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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 17, 1 November 1935, Page 3

TAMPERING WITH THE REVENUE UNSOUND PROPOSALS. For the year ended 31st March last the total Customs Duty collected on all imports was £5,858,929. 01 1 • sum £679,930, or over 11 per cent, oi the total, was collected as duty on imported alcoholic liquors. Ihe sum oi; £671,008 was also paid by way oi excise duties on New Zealand beei, making the total revenue contributed by the licensed trade £1,350,938. On top of this, there is the amount oi wages paid annually by the trade, the cost of materials used, license tees, etc., the whole amounting to £3,375,999. „ _ . , . This sum is more tnan sufficient to pay all the annual expenditure by the Government on pensions, or, to put it another way, it would pay an th e yearly expenditure on Naval ana Military Defence, the Health Department, " Mental Hospitals, Police Department, Justice and Prisons Department, Department of Agriculture, Lands and Survey, Printing and Stationery, Transport Department, and the Land and Income Tax Department, and still have something on hand. _ Despite these facts, the professional prohibitionists are once again endeavouring to foist the farce of prolnbition on this country, a farce that has turned into a tragedy wherever it lias been staged. Every country that has tried prohibition has rung down the curtain on it. Do not let it put in an appearance in New Zealand. A solid vote for Continuance is a national duty.—(Advt.)