ELECTORS!

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XVII, Issue 7150, 9 April 1919, Page 3

ELECTORS!

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Do yuu roiilLso tiuii ihoroisal present the Htronyesi. ayiUUiou in the history of this province fur a stroni; uud active Public Works policy ': D«) yuu realise .taut it' Prolnbitiun is carried the country will lose £1.150,000. the Customs and excise dudes on liquor ': Do you realise, that ihis huge sum is sufficient to pay interest on a loan of £;i;>,<)(|o.ooi>, which, if utilised for L'or a [)i'o,yr(>si\H' jmblie. works policy, would make Nl-w Zealand the most prosperous cutmti'v in (lie world ':

Do you realise that it' Prohibition is defeated the amount of compensation saved would increase the amount available for public works to £27,500.000 ?

Do you realist' this would mean the speedy completion of die East Coast Main Trunk Railway, ami the employment of hundreds of men in this district ?

Do you realise that if prohibition is carried to-morrow at least 40,0U0 men and women will be thrown out of employment on July Ist next r

Do vou realise the terrible burden

the unemployed..1luestion will then put upon the Government ':

Do you realise that the Government is up against a huge financial problem at present iu connection with the Repatriation question '■

Do you not realise the fearful tinaneial strain the Cl-overniiient will be sufl'erinu if Prohibition is carried!'

Electors! Do yon not realise that you are being made use of by the Prohibition fanatic* and the trade, that care for nothing but their

o^A'ii interests '. J

Electors ! Consider nothing but the welfare of your country. Leave this great social question alone, but use. your utmost endeavours to push, the Progressi-ve

Public Works Policy by voting out Prohibition with no uncertain hand to-morrow.