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PUBLIC NOTICES. DON'T FORGET! IS 1 YO(T VOTE FOR STATE CONTBOL NOW YOU TOTE TO PAT .£15,000,000 OP THE COUNTRY'S MONEY TO WEALTHY BREWERS & PUBLICANS. IF YOU VOTE PROHIBITION IT WILL COST NOTHING. OF COURSE, PARLIAMENT CAN AND WILL PROVIDE FOR A. FURTHER VOTE ON STATE CONTROL IF THE PEOPLE WANT IT. THEN STATE CONTROL WILL BE FOR NOTHING. DON'T THROW YOUR VOTE AWAY NOW! N.Z. DOCTORS & PROHIBITION. — 4 ANOTHER £500 CHALLENGE. , rjpHE TRADE «iys that the fitaUment. that the Medical Association's Referendum was ovo.rwhelmirgl.y in Favour of Prohibition .is "Another Prohibition Trick, THE TRADE THINKS FACTS ABE TRICKS AND TRICKS FACTS. ' The Prohibition Executive will pay iSOO to the Rcturnod Soldiers* Association if tho Doctors did not vote Against Alcohol as a Beverage by an "overwhelming majority." THE MEDICAL SOCIETY HAS REFUSED TO PUBLISH THE FIGURES. WILL THE LIQUOR TRADE allow its representatives on the Medical Council to agree to the vrtes being declared? And will it pay to the R.S.A. if the Prohibit'on statement is true? THE TRADE DAREN'T TAKE THIS ON! IT'S A CONVICTED TRICKSTER! MEDICAL As,socnnON AND PROHIBITION. . * rpHE FOLLOWING CORRESPONDENCE SPEAKS FOR ITSELF 200 Willis Street, ■ ■ / Wellington, _ _ December 15, 1910. Rev. R. S. Gray, Wellington. Donrfii'r.—Tain in.itruolo.lhv fl>« Council of the N.Z. Branch of the B.M.A. to writ» to yon a.= follows:— At ft meeting of Council, held on TVoeml">r 1'?. it was resolved unanimously that any incimvr? should be informed flint the results of the Rofer»ndnm in the Mrohol miest.ion .will not foo published: that members of Council themselves do not know the results, and that the stnHnent made by the Rev. Mr. Gray, that the result* show a majority in favour of Prohibition, is' purely an assumption. Tours faithfully, (Sgd.) E. W. OIESEN, Dr. Giesen, December IC. 1919. Chairman cf the Council British Medical Association, Wellington. Dear Sir.—l bef to f.ckno\vled"p re»i»ir>t of yours dated loth inst., concerning the Referendum on Prohibition. T desir" to call your altentio" lo the report in llia "V.7. Medical Journal" of October, in which it is stated on Pa™ ;>7O• "The votes had been counted ar.d ihe results were now available."' Tt is finite rlonr. the'Tfom. that '"U'r statement thai ''members of tk-> Council fien'ool'-ps do not kno<- " ,0 r esu!R" is acniralo only in th« sen-""* thnl all (he morohars of the Council do not know the results. Riihsctinont a rf, 'on "t of P'e Comi"il l-»own io lie i"t n re c fp{l in the Lionnr in onposing th° publication, proves that the result wn e crWtiinh" l-nny*" to them. Why, else, did they threaten to leave the Association if results were published? Yon "*■" ttiP l - n>y stntoninnf. "Ihal fhe results <.linw a innioi-itr in favour nf "rohihit'on" is "nr elv an assumption. Yon arc panful not to r.%y t'lPt if; is untrue. You pro aware, nf course, that very manv assumntions are absolutely according to fact. I am prepared to stand by I'ip published 'taleniont which T have mad", which Iho «» nitinnTs ennointH must k nmv ; s nlxohii«ly rurate. and I ehallenir" the M"dical Associat'on to disnrnvc the fact that the vote is fvorwlieliningly in favour of Prohibition. '.(''■is is known in onilp a number of the divisional sections of the Usopvi'''-'. and. indeed, is a matter of common knowledge, and the ne(ion o f Hi" Medical As"-'o»ialio" in allowing itself to bo nraelicallv coerced ''y p. majority r"i)rpspnt ! m' so dishonourable a Trade as the Lienor Trade, is exceedingly difficult lo understand. . Tours sincerely. R. GRAY, Dominion Crganiser. P.S.—As indicating the attitude of onr. considerable section of the Association, the following telegram has just been received-.— Christehureh, December 15, mifl. "Men's '.necling ln-nighl eiw '-:l. r-::I'i-is'-'slh-■ ft urlceii (11;jtj on platform, teven spoke, apologies from teu others,"