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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 10085, 26 September 1918, Page 8

lKsG# 1. What amount will the State need to pay the Trade? It is said that the recent Conference of Brewers, Hotelkeepers, Wine and Spirit Merchants, etc., while they disagreed strongly on some things, were quite unanimous in deciding to ask £15,000,000. 2. Mas any body of disinterested business men recommended it ? For obvious reasons no sensible voter.will accept either the Moderate League or "The Trade" as authorities. He should know what he is voting for. Let the National Efficiency Board say what it thinks of it as an Investment. 3. Is the new Government Department to be run for Revenue ? Let "The Trade" submit balance sheets so that the probable profit may be known. No "pig in a poke" at £15,000,000! 4. la it to be run not for revenue but to promote temperance ? Days of great financial stringency lie immediately ahead. Revenue must be produced. The Liquor Department will be expected to produce its share. The pushing of sales will not be needed. Drink sells itself! 5. Are the present Hotelkeepers, Bar-tenders and Barmaids to be the new civil servants? There may be real difficulty in staffing the new Department. The other civil servants may object to the new type. One other department brands them now. It loads a3O year old publican years on a Life Assurance policy. Will this be removed when they become Civil Servants? 6. Will there be a new brand of liquors Guaranteed not to produce present Effects? The danger is not in the management but in the liquor. "State" liquor will produce drunkenness, disease, poverty, crime and inefficiency just as surely as the present brands. Provide facilities for drink and excess is inevitable. 7. Has any country in the world m; vde a success of State Control ? Sweden's Gothenburg system, Russia's National Vodka Monopoly, South Carolina's State Dispensary, Saskatchewan's State Liquor Shops, were all huge failures. In Britain the experiment at Carlisle in a State Public House is cited as having reduced drunkenness over 60%. But this is really due to the reduction of the hours of sale to 5i per day. An exactly similar lessening of drunkenness has resulted all over England where reduced hours prevail but where no experiments in State Public Houses have been tried. It J 6 reduction of hours, not change of proprietorship, that has made better conditions. O. Why did Great Britain appoint the Liquor Control Board? Lloyd George said Drink was a greater enemy than either Germany or Austria. Admirals. Generals, Shipbuilders, Judges, Labour Leaders, etc., joined in demanding Prohibition, but the "greatest enemy" was too strongly entrenched. It defeated the great Premier, and the Liquor Control Board was appointed at a compromise. 9. Why did not the United States or Canada adopt State Control? The United State* bas sacrificed an Annual Revenue of £100,000,000 and Canada an Annual Revenue of £5,000,000, because they were strong enough to throttle the Traffic, and wanted the job done thoroughly. In spite of the restrictions Great Britain spent last year, at the present increased prices, no lew than £250,000,000 in Drink. JO. Is State Control necessary in New Zealand? Prohibition. ;;is easily' possible. The Trade it hopelessly discredited -here. It has wasted directly £20,000,000 during the 4 years of the War and as much more indirectly. It is responsible for 43,600 drunkenness during same perioclr 1 aS9 lias produced more misery, poverty and crime than can be measured. State Control has Always Failed! State Control is Always Discarded! Prohibition has Always Succeeded! Why try a discredited remedy when the true remedy is known? Canada and United States have adopted National Prohibition both for Wai Efficiency, and for Peace Efficiency, after experience with both State Ownership >• and Prohibition Sign the . N.Z. ALLIANCE MONSTER PETITION K.Z.A. KiTlfleney Scrip*—lo

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