THE PROHIBITION POLL.
The greatest curse of the small trader is the credit system. People get on the books and stay there. The “ Trade ” knows a trick worth two of that. If you want six pen’orth of stagger-juice it’s cash on the nail, and if you want just another glass of trip-me-quick its cash on the nail again. That is where the honest trader falls down in his contes withjhe dope dispenser. That chap always “gets his blow in fust! ” If we were a small trader our first move would be tc put Boose out. He is right in the track of legitimate business. In Masterton the traders always remark to investigators : “ The first thing we noticed about nolicence was that people paid their accounts quick on time.” That is never a boast in the licensed districts ! Never! Strike out the top line on Thursday, April 10
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Patea Mail, Volume XLIII, 21 March 1919, Page 3
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