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Evening Star, Issue 22193, 22 November 1935, Page 5

THOROUGHLY UNPOPULAR LACK OF LOCAL SUPPORT FOR PROHIBITION. Indications in New Zealand point toward the early demise of prohibition as a live issue. The marked lack of local support merely reflects universal sentiment. At one time certain sections put their weight behind the prohibition movement considering that economic benefits would accrue to the community in general and to themselves in particular. Experience has proven otherwise. The end of prohibition came when America, the last remaining country to retain national prohibition, repealed it by a record majority. The economic myth was exploded when it became clear that one of the reasons why America repealed prohibition was in order to help improve the economic situation. Every country that has experimented with prohibition has done so at colossal expense. America spent billions of dollars in trying to enforce this impossible law.-. The knowledge that prohibition would cost New Zealand millions of pounds and years of social and political turmoil explains why the cause is deserted by all but a few theorists who ignore the lessons of practical experience. —[Advt.]

Herr Hitler, who has declared that be has never owned a share and does not possess a bank account, has always been poor. A vegeterian and a teetotaller, he lives very frugally. In his frugality he resembles the Duce. In actual cash Signor Mussolini does not take more, than a few hundred pounds a year, and this from one only of his many offices. On the other hand, both dictators receive in the. form of official cars and other “ services ” the equivalent of a very handsome income.