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Evening Star, Issue 17226, 16 December 1919, Page 9

£SOO CHALLENGE DECLINED, THE LIQUOR TRADE FINALLY DISCREDITED. The failure to aocept the Challenge proves that the Liquor Trafflo deliberately tried to mislead the publio by stating that unless the two bottom lines wew struck out the vote was invalid—that is, uuloes the vote was for Continuanw tt vvas invalid. THOSE MATCH BOXES, They also printed on match boxes distributed at Soldiers' Clubs f " YOUB VOTE IS LOST IP YOU DO NOT GROSS OUT TWO LINES, THUS:" Here followed a fac-simile of the voting paper with the Wo bottom lines Btru& THEY DIDN'T ISSUE THE YALINTINE FAKE PROCLAMATION. THEY DIDN'T PUBLISH THE DR CANTILE FAKED CABLE. In spite of all this they ask decent electors to let them continue or to pay thea fifteen million pounds for getting out. THERE IS ONLY ONE THING TO DO WITH A TRADE SO DEBASED AND SO DISHONORABLE—WIPE IT RBGHT OUT,

_' I nerar wish to see tho Public Service returned to political control," said Mr P. H. Curnow, himself an ex-Civil servant, in an address at Auckland last week. Mr Curnow said that In the days of political management he had known men whose duty was merely to carry messages such as "Mr Johnson, you're wanted," to receive salaries «quai to those of professional men.

It is a fact well known that In connection with the Kerer i!lAi!J!l«ii^l«miJlW^il IK I (One Hundred Pounds) £IOO j said that cables published from America in the .vemng Star' in connection with the vote in Chicago The 'Evening Star' proved the cables were correct and true in every particular. rs pay up, we We will, however, give the sum of £SOO if the Rev, R. £ Gray can prove that any such advertisement as he refer to was published by the Qtago Provincial Council in Ofraar