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Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume VIII, Issue 651, 29 November 1899, Page 3

I ' ' ■■■ ■ ■ - • ■■■-.■ ".. .:. laIBERTT t T TTQTpTR^^ t Strike out LIST TWHffiS oh Local Option Paper. , v ■ ■ •' . Prohibition is a tyrannical and dangerous interference with the liberty of the subject. Effect of Prohibition would be to turn the Colony into a large sly-grog shop*. Prohibition means loss to the Colony in Revenue of over half-a-mi]lion pound*, thus increased taxation would eusue to each ratepayer and Old Age Pensions would be Abolished, Sir Robert Stout, Chief Justice of N.Z., Bays —" That if local prohibition were earned by a chance vote before there was a strong and temperance feeling in the community to back it up, the last condition might be worse than fche first." In " Prohibition Clutha" in three aid a-half years there were 79 charges of sly-grog selling against two under the License system, while the revenue decreased from £4,964 4s lid during five years License to 7s 5d under Prohibition. Canon Dodd, rector of Balclutha, said his district was in a miserable state through Prohibition, financially miserable, commercially miserable, and morally miserable. Electors, seriously consider the position. Prohibition iH Maine produces more drunkeness than under License, defiance and contempt of the law, perjury, a spying and mercenary police force/bribery, corruption, hypocritical truckling to office holders, sly-grog selling, prostitution, and the sale of vile and poisonous liquors.

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