A BAD TIME COMING?
• YOU CAN PREVENT IT., Very few peoplo realise tho importance of the licensed trade and the liquormanufacturing industry to the Dominion from an employment and wage-distribut-ing viewpoint. Directly and indirectly almost every trade and occupation in Now Zealand would bo vitally damaged by the closing of breweries and hotels and tho abolition of tho liquor-manufac-turing industry. It is a mistaken notion to imagine that hotelkecpors and brewers aro tho only people who would suffer. Thousands who do not realise that they aro supported by the licensed trado and its allied occupations would bo affected detrimentally by its abolition. Apart from mechanics nnd labourers, professional and commercial men employed directly in breweries, maltliouses, distilleries, and vineyards, a vast army is employed in scoros of other occupations. These include growers of barley and hops, sugar merchants, makers of carta, drays, harness, eases, sawmillers, timber merchants, coopers, liorsebreedors, farriers, .feed-produccrs, produce merchants, glassblowers and bottle manufacturers, electricians, and engineers, plumbers, coppersmiths, gasfitters, basketmakers, capsulo and cork-workers, importers of all brewers' and hotelkeepers' sundries, coal merchants, printers, papermakers, designers, lithographers, billposters, advertising agents, bonded storemen, packers, carrying companies, carters, coal and wharf workers, railway men, and many others more or less interested in the continuance of tho industry. On a conservative estimate, twenty-five thousand peopleten thousand breadwinners—will be affected injuriously by your vote if cast for No-License. Think of 10,000 breadwinners being thrown out of employment by your carrying a proposal to close licensed hotels and abolish alcoholio liquors. Think of the misery and wretchedness you will prevent if you vote for Continuance by striking out the bottom lines on each paper. If you vote NoLicenso you cannot escape being detrimentally affected.*
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1265, 21 October 1911, Page 6
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282A BAD TIME COMING? Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1265, 21 October 1911, Page 6
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