LIBERAL RALLY! LIBERAL RALLY! TOWN HALL, TOWN HALL, TO-NIGHT (MONDAY), 15th DECEMBER, SIR JOSEPH WARD. SIR JOSEPH WARD, LEADER OF THE LIBERAL PARTY, WILL ADDRESS THE PEOPLE OF WELLINGTON IN THE TOWN HALL, THIS (MONDAY) EVENING AT 8 o'clock. COME rAND HEAR THE TRUTH ABOUT LIBERALISM AND THE COUNTRY'S 'AFFAIRS VICTORY GALA ■ VENETIAN CONFETTI CARNIVAL, LYALL BAY. Ist, 2nd, and 3rd JANUABS. (In Aid of Life-saving Clubs.) GRAND ESTIMATING COMPETITION 1 GRAND ESTIMATING COMPETITION! £50 TOUR! £5Q TOURJ Buy a Tioket. On Sale Everywhere Early This Week. THE GREATEST AND GRANDEST EVENT OF THE YEAR! THE GREATEST AND GRANDEST EVENT OF THE YEAR! Make it a Success, and an Annual Event. TREASURE HUNT (Valuable Prizes), RAFFLES, ' SIDE-SHOWS ' TREASURE HUNT (Valuable Prizes), RAFFLES, Sipp-SHOWS.. ATTRACTIONS EXTRAORDINARY,. COME IN THOUSANDS! COME IN THOUSANDS! . Buy your Estimating Ticket* for a £50 Tour. ! ; R. LESLIE JONES, Organising Secretary, 181, Featherston-street. ' - A £500 CHALLENGE. • In an Advertisement, appearing in the New Zealand Sporting and Dramatic Kevic/.v of 4th December, 1919, asking Electors, to vote Continuance> and displayipg. i Ballot Paper, the following statement appears:— ' The Voter MUST Strike Out THE TWO BOTTOM LINES, otherwies vote is INVALID.'! ; The National Prohibition Campaign Executive charges the Liquor Trade with direct misrepresentation and a gross attempt to deceive Electors, and challenges it to disprove the charge, which is officially described by the Attorney-General as a " misleading statement." \ £500~" A CHEQUE for wh' on ha^ beett lodged with' the Editor of THE DOMINION—wiII be handed to the Returned Soldiers' Association, if the Trade disproves this charge, on condition that if it cannot it will1 pay the soms amount to the Returned Soldiers' Association.' R. S. <?RAY, DOMINION ORGANJSER. ANOTHER "LIQUQR" EXPOSURE. AVERAGE PRICE TEA IS 2s 6d lb., SUGAR ftd lb, TOBACCO I2s Ib. THE LIQUOR TRADE SAYS: TEA WILL BE INCREASED BY 4s .4d Ib, SUGAR 7d lb, TOBACCO 6s lb. To make op lo?s of Liquor Revenue ....v.t.t... £1,500,Q00 (N.Z. Year Book makes it less than £900,000). TEST IT FOR (Amounts from Year Book, p. 362)5 Tea—8,793,0371b at 4» $d Ib ,_-^^..u.-.-^.v.v......-;...„-.,„ £1,905,0JQ0 " Sugar—l,36B,os6cwi; at 7d lb „.„„.. -.j..«.-.-.tr. - £4,468,905 Tobacco—3,lo4,7o9lb at 6s lb. ...... ...~.-.-. .' £931,400 £7,505,305" THAT'S HOW. THEY WOULD CALCULATE-COMPENSATION IF STATE PURCHASE WERE CARRIED. WIPE THEM OUT. PROHIBITION WILL RELEASE £9,OQ.Q,QPQ A YEAR FOR DECENT TRADES. MAHAR'S, 46, Courtenay-place.— You 1 f\LT) False Teeth bought, sound .or want a Suit for your boy? Then V broken. Best possible price's Jn tv.v in, We have a Mod f inge of Kftia. ' New Ko*l»nd, Si«nd any you hare to if, poi All-wool Tweed Suits, ako Grey All- I Uunrtone. Box 1418. Auckland. Bit, 2s ■wool Shirts *nd Jerseys. ! ye»r«. Cash by ratara. pott*
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Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 143, 15 December 1919, Page 2
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445Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 143, 15 December 1919, Page 2
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