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Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 276, 22 November 1935, Page 6

THOROUGHLY UNPOPULAR. LACK OF LOCAL SUPPORT FOR PROHIBITION. Indications in Now Zealand point toward the early demise of prohibition as a live issue. The marked lack of local' support merely reflects universal sentimont. At one time certain sections put their weight behind the prohibition movement considering that economic benefits would accruo to the community in general and to them-i selves 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 The end of prohibition came when America, the last remaining country to retain national prohibition, repealed it by a record majority. The economic myth was exploded when it became clear that one of the reasons why America repealed prohibition was in order to help improve the economic situation.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 trying to enforce this impossible law. Tho 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.)