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Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 144, 16 December 1919, Page 6

THE SOLDIERS' VOTE. WHEN DID THE PROHIBITION PARTY ASK EOR IT? THE MODERATE LEAGUE says that the New Zealand Alliance (Prohibition Party) did NOT ask that the Soldiers' Vote should be taken at the April Poll. Read these Resolutions taken from the Minutes of the Alliance Council, held in St. John's Lecture Hall, Wellington, on 3rd April, 1918, and recommended by a Convention held in June, 1917: — That failing tho adoption of the National Efficiency Board's report, . the NeV Zealand Alliance demands that tho Licensing Poll be held before the end of tho present year, whether the term of Parliament be extended or not. That in all votes taken on the liquor question the vote of. Soldiers on active service be taken also, but under proper safeguards. Both these decision's were conveyed to the Prime Minister by a deputation BEFORE.the Moderate League's meeting was even heldf ■„ [As proof of the accuracy of this statement the Minute Book referred to was submitted for examination at the office of The Dominion,] £500 CHALLENGE DECLINED' THE LIQUOR TRADE FINALLY DISCREDITED. rJIHE FAILURE to Accept the Challenge proves that the Liquor Traffic deliberately tried to mislead the public by stating that unless1 the two bottom lines were struck out tho vote would be invalid; that is, unless the voto was for • Continuance it was invalid. THOSE MATCH BOXES. They also printed on* match boxes distributed at Soldiers' Clubs: —"Your vote is lost if "you do not cross out two lines thus: " (Here follows a facsimile of the ballot paper with the two bottom lines struck out.) THE OTHER FRAUDS. THEY DID ISSUE THE VALINTINE .FAKE PROCLAMATION. THEY DID PUBLISH THE DR, CANTLIE FAKE CABLE. IN SPITE OF ALL THIS, they ask decent electors to LET THEM CONTINUE or to pay £15,000,000. TO GET OUT. THERE IS ONLY ONE THING TO DO WITH A TRADE . x'SO DEBASED- . • VOTE IT RIGHT OUT. N.Z. DOCTORS & PROHIBITION. ANOTHER £500 CHALLENGE. fjIHE TRADE says that the statement that the Medical Association's Referendum was overwhelmingly in Favour of Prohibition. is -' Another Prohibition -rick.'-* THE TRADE THINKS FACTS 'ARE TRICKS AND TRICKS FACTS. The Prohibition Executive willtJay £500 to the Returned Soldiers' __sociat___ if the Doctors did not vote Against Alcohol as a Beverage by an — overwhelming majority." \ THE MEDICAL SOCIETY HAS REFUSED TO PTTBLISH THE FIGURES. WILL THE LIQUOR TRADE allow its representatives on the Medical 'Council to agree to the votes being declared? And will it pay £500 to the R.S.A. if the Prohibition statement is. true?, THE TRADE DAREN'T TAKE THIS ON! IT IS A CONVICTED TRICKSTER!