NATIONAL EFFICIENCY.
An addreflS on the appeal now before' the public for a referendum in relation to the liquor traffic was given in the Tabemnclc Hall hist evening l>y Mrs. Melen Barton, of lilnnfjiiw. who wns introduced by Mrs. Cm>k. president of the W.r.T.l". '.Mrs. Barton said thai four years n£*"o she addressee] one of the bicfpeat meetings ever hold in demanding , that prohibition l>e enforceil. A referendum hail been taken in twelve areas in Gotland amongst the miners and the engineers, and the result of that vote waß 10 to U against the liquor traffic. One of the heaviest polls came from a district where the Grithenburfr syntem, or national control, wae in proKress and where the throe issues were placed before the people -the open bar. State control, and prohibition. The vote wilt for prohibition.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 208, 31 August 1918, Page 6
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