IMPORTANT AGREEMENT
When the vast majority of grownup New Zealanders are of one mind on a subject, such a degree of unanimity indicates a deep-rooted conviction. At the last Election 643,126 electors gave an overwhelming verdict against prohibition, for the following reasons:—
1. New Zealand must vote against prohibition which has so thoroughly demonstrated its calamitous results. It can no longer be regarded as a serious issue.
2. New Zealand cannot afford to squander millions to provide additional proof of an acknowledged universal failure.
3. America gave prohibition a thorough trial lasting 14 years, and costing billions of dollars. Repeal was carried by the biggest majority ever recorded on any question.
4. All the world has rejected prohibition. New Zealand has done so on every occasion, each time more emphatically than the last. On Election-Day, vote Continuance —Strike out the two bottom lines. Hold fast to Liberty. —7
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 24059, 22 September 1943, Page 6
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148IMPORTANT AGREEMENT Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 24059, 22 September 1943, Page 6
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