LIQUOR POLL
Sir.-rJt is to be hoped that the recent Royal Commission will have turned people’s minds to the liquor problem and the advantages of public control of the tr£de. For years the few people interested in continuance of the status quo have succeeded in implying by advertisement and by sham attacks on prohibitionists tfipt prohibition is the alternative to the present situation. Protests at the present conduct of the trade have thus been channelled off into a harmless lost cause. Few people, whatever political party they support, have really been opposed to public control of the liquor trade; and testimonials commending the measures taken in Invercargill and elsewhere have come from adherents of both parties. Bu| on election days, preoccupied with better advertised pauses, voters have given little thought to this matter.— Yours, etc., AT G. TURNER. November 24, 1949.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25970, 25 November 1949, Page 9
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