ASK THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC THIS?
According to Police Reports for 1921 there were over 8 800 convictions for drunkenness in New Zealand. Ask the liquor traffic what made these cases ‘drunks’ and where did they get it? Ask the liquor traffic if the arrests and convictions represent ail the drunkenness in New Zealand? Ask the liquor Maine it it is true that every habitual diuukardand every casual drunkard hvg.in as a moderate? Ask the liquor irailic if intoxicating drink is sold anvwhere in Now Zealand wilhwithout drunkenness being there loo? Ask the liquor traffic if a prohibition order taken out by a man himself or on a relative’s request is ever broken? Ask the liquor traffic if a prohibition order has a chance of being obeyed whilst an organised trade is pushing temptation before a man at every opportunity? Ask the liquor traffic who pays when a husband and father spends most or all of his money on drink? In the U. S. A. under prohibition drunkenness has been reduced 60 per cent. Ask youtself if it is net true that Prohibition is just Common sense? NZ. Alliance Publicity, (61).
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Dunstan Times, Issue 3128, 31 July 1922, Page 5
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190ASK THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC THIS? Dunstan Times, Issue 3128, 31 July 1922, Page 5
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