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THE UNITED STATES SPENT MANY MILLIONS ON INEFFECTIVE COAST PATROLS I; , .* , 17\ \j^^29 V «r4883 miles \ IT Of COASTLINE 4330 MILES A* A NEW ZEALAND has •"—"-CT nearly the same coastline The idea of prohibition enforcement in ,~- New Zealand is as ludicrous as prohibition itself. Our island formation gives' ' ■' -' us a coastline naarly equal to that of the United States which ineffectively spent 152,503,464 dollars in twelve years on coastguard appropriations. This discloses one of the many unpleasant ingredients of the pill which prohibitionists would like the New ; Zealand Taxpayer to swallow. The above amount, which is equivalent to £38,125,000 in New Zealand currency, was only one of the smallest items in the colossal total cost of prohibition in the i-tu'ir- .. c United States, which exceeded thirty "' ° ,*she -United State. billion dollars, an amount that appals the ■ ;-' repealed prohibl- imagination. New Zealand should profit tion ln 1?33. by "the greatest mistake* America ever made" and carefully avoid an experiment productive of innumerable evils •'"' and illimitable expense. VOIE CONTINUANCE str/ke out 'vote fop National Continuance the two I i ß tß> State PunciiAcc ahd CoNTnoL Bottom Lines , .. I wtofM (IffIOML^IIOIIIIIITIONfirvr^' . set. (W dan 7 H^^ I I Bb "•' ■ ■ ■ Hi I 'B^B^B Wm A. PRODUCT OF THE CREAMOATA MILLS-PR EPA RE D BY FLEMING & CO. LTD...-GORE. v

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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 111, 6 November 1935, Page 30

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Page 30 Advertisements Column 3 Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 111, 6 November 1935, Page 30

Page 30 Advertisements Column 3 Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 111, 6 November 1935, Page 30