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Evening Star, Issue 20020, 10 November 1928, Page 22

The Licensing Poll, 1928 FELLOW CITIZENS Having regard to the widespread abandonment of Prohibition as a solution of the problem of intemperance, and being convinced that the people of New Zealand, having repeatedly rejected that issue, are now less than ever inclined to accept Prohibition as the policy of this country, the undersigned citizens, being earnest advocates of temperance, appeal to the electors to make the middle issue the decisive factor in the defeat of Prohibition by voting for STATE PURCHASE AND CONTROL, THUS DECLARING FOR REFORM rather than continuance o! existing conditions. EVERY VOTE FOR STATE PURCHASE AND CONTROL WILL STRENGTHEN THE DEMAND FOR REFORM, AND IS DEFINITELY COUNTED AGAINST PROHIBITION. EVERY VOTE FOR STATE PURCHASE AND CONTROL will force upon the attention of the Government and the Legislature the need we now declare for the institution of some such radical change in the licensing system as that offered by CORPORATE CONTROL, wherein, by The scientific combination of non-political Governmental control, With business management, The limitation of private profit, The diversion of surplus profit to public purposes, And the establishment of disinterested control over every hotel, The standard of accommodation and general service would be raised, The purity and quality of liquors guaranteed, And all incentives to excess discouraged. BY SUCH MEANS WOULD THIS COUNTRY’S ALREADY BPLEN= DID RECORD OF SOBRIETY BE IMPROVED, AND NEW ZEA* LAND’S LICENSING SYSTEM BECOME A MODEL TO THE WORLD. The sentiment in favour of reform is rapidly growing in New Zealand. At the last poll, the votes for State Purchase and Control increased by nearly 50 per cent, over the vote in 1922, whereas the proportional vote of both other issues declined. FOR THESE REASONS we pledge our support to the promoters of the proposal known as Corporate Control, and respectfully urge our fellow-electors to assist the movement for real and practical temperance legislation by voting at the forthcoming poll for STATE PURCHASE AND CONTROL. NAME. OCCUPATION. ADDRESS.

To prevent bad judges, chosen for political reasons only, from doing wrong wo have by a patchwork of prohibitions made it impossible for good judges to act effectively.” In Siam some ol tho women entrust their children to tho care of elephant nurses, and it is said that the trust is never betrayed. The babies play about the huge feet of the elephants, who are careful not to hurt their little charges.