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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16288, 12 August 1918, Page 9

The National Efficiency Board and Prohibition Report submitted to the Government, July 9th, 1917 "Evidence was tendered by more than sixty witnesses, drawn from various classes of the community, and the matter was investigated from as many aspects as were presented, and where possible, statements have been traced and verified. The "The witnesses jvho ten- the increased diversion in win e and spirit ' Ihe dered themselves repre- durable andbusinesses. in vineyards and hop-gardens, and Witnesses sented brewers, hotelkeep- to productxve . tho inioa of the generally in what is known as "the Trade." It ers, wine and spirit mer- ° «,;3«nceu bv world-wide experience is manifest that injustice would arise if th® fss^^rs^^ssss: .HK-* JSsfc fenuierance advocates, representatives of certain on liquor, if itssale If tIOFl —Why in the interest of the Dowd of Women and Children spent l Rernm- minion and of its inhabitProtection Seties, The British and Foreign spent, the «Pon prodnces o Kecom- . onier to obtain an Snore' SocX Keneral merchants, raanu- indirectly, a revenue to if mvestea it men ded early discontinuance of the facturersrTnd employers, including faymers. becomes subject to annual taction. aa le of alcoholic liquors. Judicial.' magisterial, medical and military , . "Wihb resard to fc)x From that reasonable compensation should ba grant SS «»".If. taton. I- f"" 0 ' Prohibition poiui «d to th™. rffcctod. other inquiries the Board has had matters; ae- Q fj e ,, e f t t to of view the Board is con- /The Board j s 0 f opinion it will be found tjsat pending upon the Liquor 1 rj- ns idered the Nation vinced that it; wo P ld b $ no compensation'need be given to individual * its notice, and this mater al hasten considered HatlOn beneficial to the nation and employees, as all male and female employees by it ih connection with the evidence p y com j U cive to the well-being of the people that oon jd be absorbed in other occupations. In it* tiken for this inquiry. Ie importation, manufacture, and sale of judgement, all interests having been considered, . wines, beer, and spirituous liquora (including the parties to be compensate! are represented . Th*> Points There * r ® three mam medicinal preparations containing alcohol) by the breweries, wholesale and retail licensed Ine i " . points for consideration. sbou id be prohibited. Thii view is supporter! vendors, vignerons and wine-manufacturers, for Consider* each m itself separate ano rcsu i ts obtained in our own countrjrunde '\op-growers, and the* owners of properties to ation distinct: — conditional Prohibition, and this experience r >-hicn a retail license is attached. (a.) As to the moral effect confirmed wherever Prohibition has operated. compenßation to upon the life and progress of the nation necessary ■« paid for the immediate closing of the Liquor caused by the manufacture, sale, and Exemptions [J al Trad# should be based upon the difference becown»F*» of alcoholic drmk. tweon t h, market v,I„, ol• U»,» »»i .t from the operation q Board finfls that the conditions associated with the trade, and the traffic. The People JJ® chief fac°oi-8 in the ' value of such assets without a license. (e) As to whether the liquor traffic eu- shotxla continuance of the Liquor ' croaches upon, hinders, 01; retards the « ; t Vt/U v Trade are public custom Compensa- The amounts to be paid by efficiency, of the nation. As to whether iJeClde Why an d the financial interests f . J\w way of compensation need the Liquor Traffic lowers the physical j nTO { Te( 3. The Board is satisfied that the great- tlOtl need JlOt not necessanly be found and mental standard, and so. reduces wt c gj c i enc y would be attained both for th.' fog Cash m c as r' . i/c! .j . the productive value of the individual na tj o n and the individual by a state of com- . suggests, might be paid in and collectively of the people. As to nlcke p ro hibition, but the Board recognises that (<overnment securities bearing the same rate of whether the Liquor Traffic causes a Prohibition is a people's question, and should interest and the same currency as the war-loan national economic loss. ' be determined only by au. expression of the debentures. With regard to (aJ: The Board has not voice of the people. Increased Thp Board is satisfiediha. osrmitted its judgment to be influenced by the It therefore recommends . . compensation based on the. moral aspect of the question, bat has arrived at ItnTneaiaie that legislation-be passed National foregoing lines would be ii« conclusions quite apart therefrom. Prohibition submitting ihe qnestion of Fffrrimnev a sound "investment for National Prohibition to a n A. the State, and that the U i iL/. /«,. With regard to (b): This inc c " 516 rote of tho people at the KeCOUpS the cost would be recouped by MOW the IAtSS ] nrgft i y , s a Government ear u es t possible moment, and that such vote Cost increased national efficirt Revenue question, and the com- should be upon the basis of immediate Prohibi- iency:. *rtA««7sf hm mentsthattheßoardoffers t j on acco mpanied by reasonable compensation yf the Government decides to submit this WOUia vc thereon are—That the peo- to the interests affected. Auy compensation proposal to Parliament the Board" would br met pie should be better able pa ;d to those engaged in tho Liquor Trade wouM prepared, i f requested so to do, to advise as to to provide the necessary f or the greater part remain and be invested the form of constitution aqd procedure'of :> maoujit of taxation if the inefficiency at, the Dominion and thus be us«d for pro- tribunal suitable to determine the amounts ol present created by the effects of alcohol is duction and trade. compensation to be paid. removed. That lass expenditure wnjbe re- ti.. rmbrfinn of the existing leeisla- The Board judges the present public sentiquired in c ® nn witHUie]P<'U?® tion (which inthe event of National Prohibition ment to be such tliat the people of the Domin - i)ep*rtments, and Charitable Aid extended tei-ai of trad- ion would approve of^ the opportunity beinr hom paWw institutions. That ing rights before Prohibition become# operative} afforded to there of voting upon this question "In conclusion, the Board places on record that whilst at jirst it looked into this matter from the point of view of war conditions, yet as the inquiry preceded it became apparent that in the interests Si national efficiency the Board had to consider the liquor question from Ac point of view of the v cfHdiency of theSStatse s and the individual both during the war afterwards, and it has therefore submitted its recommendations so as to promote permanent national efficiency. * . i The Alliance Monster Petition will give us the Poll Sign it To-day!

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