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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17426, 21 September 1918, Page 7

More than one elector has already been misled by the Liquor Trade's Petition, lhat remarkable document is so artfullv constructed that it is no wonder that voters have failed to grasp exactly what thev are supporting when they sign it. It purports to aek for a "fair, just, and reasonable %9 poll to decide by a bare majority the three issues of National Continuance, National Ownership, and National Prohibition. It also provides that every voter is to vote for one issue only, and that no issue is to bo carried unkss it secures a majority of the total votes cast on the three issues What is tho effect of this? It secures for the Trade a three-to-one chance. If National Ownership is carried the Trade wins! If National Continuance is carried tho Trade wins! If No Issue is carried the Trade wins! If £00,000 voters go to the poll and 250,000 vote for National Prohibition, 150.000 for National Ownership, and 100.000 for National Continuance tho Trade wins, for no issue secures tho required bare mai'oritv of 250,001. This is th 6 Liquor Trade's 'fair, just, and reasonable" proposal. It is fair that, ■every elector should have a vote, it is just that the vote lie on a bare majority basis, it is reasonable that the vote be on tho basis of the National Efficiency Board's Recommendation. This is what the N.Z. Alliance Petition asks, and it is your duty to sign the N.Z. Alliance Petition and refuse to sign that on behalf of Liquor. If you have signed tho latter under a misapprehension. p.sk your M.P. to have vour name r?moved, or send word to the N.Z. Alliance representative at once Advt.

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