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Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 134, 9 June 1922, Page 4

, German marks, worth one shillirigr each before the war, arc now being exchanjjbd at the rate of six a penny. Their value bh&nges almost hourly those days, biit it has not been above the rate quoted for Inany months. . GOODWILL ON TAP AND IN BOTTIiE. The;Natioiwl .Council of the Licensed Trade in New Zealand issues a statement that Continuance is goodwill. The following examples of the kind of goodwill Continuance: produces have all appeared in the press. Names are suppressed, but every one can be prov^ad from Court records :— .'Sentencing a prisoner to twenty, years for manslaughter, the Judge saidi: You, inflamed with ( drink, and having a gun in your hand, in suddehi passion^ ] and without premeditation, fired the fatfil shot.—Continuance is goodwill 1 A youth committed an aggravated assault on a girl of fourteen years. All tile witnesses Agreed' that he was. under the influence of drink at the time.— Continuance is Goodwill? A husband got very drunk* seized his wifo N by th« .throat, threatened to hiurder her, and bad- to-be lied up by the neighbours.—Continuance is Goodwill ? He fought, and bit, and kicked all the way to tho station, said a co'netable.— He had- had,liquor. More goodwill. , Tho assault wiis a most brutal one. He seenis to have kicked the other man when he was down. De'e'nding>solicitor said hid client had no recollection of it.—.He had had some liquor. More goodwill. ; His attacker put him on the floor, tried to chbkei him, iihd. began to bits his head. -He was not drunk, but had had some liquor.—M>ore goodwill.. The girl was badly man-handled by her assailant, and had to lie up in hospital for ten days: Defending counsel said accused bad been under tho influence of liquor, at tne time.—Continuance is goodwill ? 1 The belligerents had1 been imbibing freely, than adjourned to the deck, where stabs, kicks, and blows were cordially exchanged.—Do you observe the connection—Continuance is goodwill? ' A brutal and murderous asfeault wits committed- upon a ranger by four men, who kicked him into unconsciousness;' and threw him into a creek —they were all under tlib influence of bottled goodwill. Th-e, above are merely sample? of the regular weekly output "due to Continuance of the liquof traffic". Is such a traffic worth- keening? Vote it otit. — Now Zealand Alliance Publicity (47).— Ad-vl.

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