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The National Efficiency Board and Prohibition Report submitted to the Government, July 9th, 1917 “Evidence was tendered by more than sixty witnesses, drawn from various classes of the community, and the matter was investigated from as many‘aspects as were presented, and where possible, statements have been traced and verified, “The witnesses who ten- Cue increased national thrift which is most large sums of money have been invested in * dered themselves repre- desirable and which would follow the diversion breweries, in licensed houses, in wine and spirit Witnesses sented brewers, hotelkeep- to productive trade channels of the money now businesses, in vineyards and hop-gardens, and - - : era. wine and spirit mer- spent upon liquor would, in the opinion of the generally in what is known as ‘ the Trade." It chants chartered clubs, employees in hotels Board, as evidenced by world-wide experience is manifest that injustice would arise if the and in’clubs, hop and barley growers, and mer- where the abolition or reduction of the usjr of licenses and the Liquor Trade were summarily chants, vine-growers and winemakers, the New alcoholic liquor has operated, more than coun- terminated without reasonable compensation. Zealand. Alliance and other temperance teract the loss of public revenue now received organizations; there were also independent from this source. That the money now spent Compensa- The Board is therefore temperance advocates, representativesof certain on liquor, if its sale were stopped, would be .. U/1., satisfied that it would be Church bodies, and of Women and Children spent or invested in some other direction. If lion rYliy in the interest of the DoProtection Societies, The British and Foreign spent, the expenditure produces, directly or ReCOm- minion and of its inbabitSailors’ Societv. general merchants, manu- indirectly, a revenue to the State; if invested it monriorl ants ’ orde F to obtain an factorers, and’employers, including farmers. becomes subject to annual taxation. menaea early discontinuance of the Judicial, magisterial, medical and military ~ side of alcoholic liquors, evidence was also taken. In connection with Prohibition With regard to fey : From that reasonable compensation should be grantother inquiries the Board has had matters de- „ a national-efficiency point ed to those affected. pending upon the Liquor Trade brought under a IO ..f view the Board is eon- The £j oar( ] j s o f opinion it will be found that its notice, and this material has been considered the Nation i” e-u xyould t>e no compensation need be given to individual by it in connection with the evidence specifically oenehcial to the nation and employees, as all male and female employees taken for this inquiry. conducive t° rhe well-being of the people that CO uld be absorbed in other occupations. In its the importation, manufacture, and sale of judgement, all interests having been considered, yt There are three main wines, beer, and spnituous liquors ynchring the parties to be compensated are represented inerptms . ts for COIIS id e -ation. n ? ed ’ c j nal preparations containing alcohol) by the breweries, wholesale and retail licensed for Consider* each in itself separate and should be prohibited. This view is supported vendors, vignerons and wine-manufacturers, /ifrnn distinct:— results obtained m our own country under hop-growers, and the owners of properties to “ / > * + in ! <v * conditional Prohibition and this experience is which a retail license is attached. (a.J As to the moral effect confirmed wherever Prohibition has operated. upon the life and progress of the nation The Board believes that the compensation to caused by the manufacture, sale, and - ExemntionS WOU U be necessary be paid for the immediate closing of the Liquor consumption of alcoholic drink. “ to exempt methylated al- Trade should be based upon the difference be- . , cohol for commercial purposes and pure alcohol tween the market value of the assets as used at <l>.) As to the public revenue derived chemical or medicinal requirements. present, taking into consideration the present from the operations of the liquor * licensing laws and the other circumstances and traffic. The People T,ie Board finds that the conditions associated with the trade, and the ('■! A. I. .b. liquor Ir.fflo „• shoa tf X&V'.'S’lhoStS. “Vra’whethCT Decule-Why Compensa- Tbe.monotatobop.MLr eslefficney would b. .U.ta.a both for be Cash >” ,' n .• i Aq rn nation ana the.individual by a state of coin- suggests, might be paid in Ls rmtinr Trlffin -i plete Prohibition, but the Board recognises that Government securities bearing the same rate of national economic v ' Prohibition is a people’s question, and should interest and the same currency as the war-loan be determined only by an expression of the debentures. Wiih jernrd to The Bonrd has n<;t voice of the peop!<. ► rnntt- d it* judgment tn he influenced by the InCTCQScd The Board is satisfied thai r» r-tl asjiect of the question, but has arrived *.t Immediate therefore recommends compensation based on the < j inclusions quite up.nt therefrom. tnar legislation be passed IMatlOnal foregoing lines would be submitting the question of Efficiency a sound investment for J .aL r With regard to Tlr« the Basis National Prohibition to a •£ the State, and that the the LOSS a Governmein vote of the people at the ReCOUpS the cost would be recouped by in Revenue question.' and the com- f>alli «t P-;?sii>ie moment .and that such vote Cost increased national efficJL nients that the Board offers should be upon rhe basis of immediate Probibi- iency: WOUUI be thereon are —That the pws l ' <,n ac; '. oni P'' ll 'i‘- lby reasonable compensation jf the Government decides to submit this met nie should be better able to the in teres is affected. Any compensation proposal to Parliament the Board would be to provide the necessary paid to those engaged m the Liquor Trace would prepared, if requested so to do, to advise as to .. „{■ taxation if the \ inefficiency at for the greater part remain and be invested the form of constitution and procedure of a r-v>ent c-ertvd by the effects of alcohol is with in the Dominion anu thus be used for pro- tribunal suitable to determine the amounts of ■ That less expenditure will be re- ‘-’Wtion and trade. compensation to be paid. ■ >'-e : i.i eopne.tion with the Police and Prisms Under the protection of the existing legisla- The Board judges the present public senti- >■ ■p; , ”t.iie”is. the Hospital and Charilaide Aid tion (which in the event of National Prohibition ment to be such that the people of the Dominoarvs. the mental hospitals, the i.iem jate being carried, grants an extended term of trad- ion would approve of the opportunity being nimw and fw other public institutions. That ing rights before Prohibition becomes operative) afforded to them of voting upon this question." In conclusion, the Board places on record that whilst at first it looked into this matter from the p unt of view of war conditions, yet as the inquiry preceded it became apparent that in the interests o x national ef iciency the Boa r d had to consider the liquor question from the point of view of the efficiency of the Slate and the individual both during the war and afterwards, and it has therefore submiftcG its recommendations so as to promote permanent national efficiency. The Alliance Monster Petition will give us the Poll Sign it To-day 1

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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VIII, Issue 213, 10 August 1918, Page 7

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Page 7 Advertisements Column 1 Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VIII, Issue 213, 10 August 1918, Page 7

Page 7 Advertisements Column 1 Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VIII, Issue 213, 10 August 1918, Page 7

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