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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18724, 30 November 1922, Page 8

[Advt.] £2,500,000 LIQUOR REVENUE. TO the editor. Sir,— Mr Robert Milligan’s letter appearing -in' your issue ot tuo 27th insi., is a prohibitionist’s epistle through ami through. 'ltiis complaint is that our prospectus ‘‘The Case for Continuance’’ is wrong and misleading. We maintain that ‘‘The Case for Continuance” is correct and offered to cover his- challenge for £IOOO and increase it to £2OOO if ho staked the challenge solely on. our prospectus. This Mr Milligan declined to do, but ho is nevertheless still saying that “The Case for Con tin nance’’ 'is wrong and misleading but refuses to .risk any cash to back his opinion. • The booklet "The Case for Continuance” is an'honest endeavour from an honest man to show 'that prohibition is unnecessary in New Zealand, as wo are a law-abiding, clean-living people, probably the most sober and temperate picoplo in the world to-day, and rapidly becoming more so. ; We know that Mr J. A. Harrison, the 'author of “The Case for Continuance” is a 'capable man, and wo, also know that he had ■expert, assistance in compiling his various statistics with a view of eliminating any possibility of error. My council felt so strongly that Mr Harrison could he relied upon that, we made our offer to stand behind ‘‘The Case for Continuance” to the extent of £2OOO. ITence the letter published in your issue of Monday last. . The pamphlet has to bo read ns a whole, and wo strongly object, to any one paragraph being torn from its context ami a meaning road into it which the author qualifies and amplifies- his preceding or succeeding paragraphs. We affirm that any fair-minded man on reading ‘‘The Case for Continuance” or any other literature issued by our National or Provincial Councils can amyo at no other conclusion, but that the statement—

“In the event of Prohibition being carried r . the ' revenue will lose £2,500,000." is oilier than a moderate estimate of (ho position. Apparently Mr Robert Milligan is only socking a little cheap notoriety and having vindicated' our position wo are; satisfied.— I arn,,etc., Roy S. Johnston, Organiser Provincial Council of the Otago Licensed Trade. -Dunedin, November 29.

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