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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 260, 3 November 1925, Page 11

BUSINESS BOOMING IN THE UNITED STATES.

Former United States Consul-General for New Zealand, the Hon. D. F. 'Wilber, who just returned, made the following striking statement in regard to business conditions in the United States: "Speaking of trade and industry in America." Mr. Wilber said, "they were in a quite flourishing , condition, everywhere so far as he was informed. The country, taken as a whole was very prosperous. Confidence is well established, and the volume of business this fall is expected to be the heaviest recorded." This state of things could not exist if there was more drunkenness, more crime, more vice, in the U.S.A. under prohibition a3 alleged by the Liquor Traffic. On the contrary, the diversion of £400,000,000 per annum previously spent on liquor to purchase of useful commodities has undoubtedly enormously influenced the industrial and commercial situation for good. Diverting £8,494.459 now spent annually on drink in New Zealand to more useful commodities will have a similar result. That is why business men should vote Prohibition.—(Ad.) Mails that left Auckland by the R.M.s. Niagara on September 20 via Vancouver arrived at London on October 31. A sitting of the Assessment Court will be held in the courthouse. Whakatane, to hoar objections to valuations of Rangitaiki Plains on November 10. Mr. J. ,G. L. Hewitt will preside.