NEW ZEALAND EFFICIENCY

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 302, 10 September 1918, Page 7

NEW ZEALAND EFFICIENCY

WHAT THE PEOPLE HAVE ACCOMPLISHED. MARVELLOUS RESULTS OF INDUSTRY. j Tho people of New Zealand'havo shown their efficiency in a most thorough and proper manner. In four years they nave loaned ,£35,000,000 to the Government, - and have besides added to (heir tornmercial and savings banks credits no less a sum than ,t'3S,(WO,(IOO. A lous exhibition of Efficiency and -limit; 83 millions sterling in four years 1 While doing all this they have spent less than threepence per head lier Uay lon alcoholic beverages; and it «'o were to believo the Prohibitionists and Elbciency League "spruikers" this cxßonditure has injured our gallant soldiers and our temperate people!!! In the face of these results the contention of alleged business men is as absurd as it is untrue. . ~ Besides all this let us consider our . productiveness as a country in four yeais "VuHmpoi'ts in 1913 totalled .£20,820,000. In 1917 they totalled X 20.000.000. Ouv exports in 1913 were and in 1917 they were and all this notwithstanding the shipping filioitage and depletion of our best manhood, curing four vears of war we havo exported over £100,000,000 worth of productions. Surely the people of this Dominion, who have done all this to win the war. who have displayed greater efficiency during tho war than before it, ought not to submifc to the libelling and malignity 01 socalled efficiency business men, whose motives cannot be described as patriotic. We have proved our. patriotism, economy, and efficiency. ..it The Prohibitionists are never ti«il ot sas'ing that the sale of liquor in JN./j. under existing conditions has affected. the efficiency of our soldiers. But this libel lias been always repelled by thomill vary authorities, and (lie Generals of the Allied armies acclaim New Zealanders as second to none in efficiency aud valour-as soldiers and courtesy itself-as men. hut Prohibitionists would evell stop these brave lads, rum rations in the; trenches. Besides, this camnaign of mnl.'Pmh; lias been started by the Prohibition Tai y and the so-called Efficiency League, who are dividing the people into sections, fomentiw? strife and ill-will among all classes when wo should all by united m our obiect to,overthrow the Hun. bucn conduct on the part of these bodies is not' patriotic. . What'docs the patriot Artemas say of this, lit (Chapter XVI, verso 27) :- Avoid thou them that seek to divide the people, one _ against the other; for they are traitors m the The Prohibitionists are continuously doing what: this .patriot says should avoided while we arc fighting for Lib .uv and Freedom ; and tlicy, having sold then policy for "thirty pieces of « lver >„ 6 ,° *9 speak, arc ready to crucity -New Zealand on a Calvary of Compensation. Having received a large majority mandate from the people ill 191-1, the -National Council for tho Licensed Xiade have in all confidence put forwaid a Petition for 'signature to postpone tho dividing of the people till the. noit General ■ Election; and for latuotem. Freedom, and Democracy are asking; the electors to sign their Monster with the three issues, viz., National Continuance. National Ownership, National Prohibition.—Published by arrangement. DOMINIONEFFICIENCY' MILITARY AND ECONOMIC. A semi-official- .statement in Tuii Dominion of September 9 stales:- Ihu Kew Konland Division has been fighting in the great leading olfensivo for more than a month. During that time it has beeu attacking the Germans almost conlimiously. It has stormed many stiong positions, encircled and captured Bapanme, inking an enormous number ot prisonei s, aud gathering up enemy gnus and men other booty. ... It is a proud out sale boast that the New Zealand Division can outlast the enemy divisions opposed to it." This Division was bred, trained, and equipped under tho present Licensing system iu New Zealand. . Prohibitionists assert, however, that Prohibition is necessary for the elhciency of tho Now Zealand eoldiers. Iheir statement is a gross libel upon our men and an insult to tho fathers aud jjnothers who bred them. . \s regards economic efficiency no country in the world has exceeded iSejv /.calami in economy and productiveness since the war began. We have saved XB3 000,000 in four years, and our exports have 'exceeded .U100,000,000 in the same that time we spent about threepence per head per Uav on alcoholio beverages, yet Mr. W. D. Hunt and others say that the efficiency ot New Zealand has been reduced by the dunking propensities of her. people, .this is a libel upon the whole country. Mr. Ball, editor ot the Wanganui "Chronicle," a leading Prohibitionist, SIIVS them by and large, tho 'inhabitants of New, Zealand are a sober 'prohibition in Russia produced Bolshevism. which was stimulated by German propagandists. Beware, of the influence of the Bolsheviki patronised hi the Prohibition Party in Jw Zealand. Til" best wav to strengthen this country to .patriotism, freedom, and democra'cv al, the nresent time is to avoid the snlittinir of the people by You will, therefore, please sign the let - t.ion asking for a change in the ballot, uaper for the next General Election. 11. has. three issues, viz., Rational Continuance' National Ownership, and National Prohibition.--Putdished bv arrangement.