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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14048, 19 July 1916, Page 5

"Oyer £4,000,000 is t>4ing, spent yearly m drink m New Zealand," said. Mr G.. T. Booth,-' at a meetings held iii 1 Christchurch , recently, to discuss tlie question of 6 "o'clock closing. t "That .is, a* tiiemen. .: doits waste. I aim not here as. a prohibi- : t'oriist. I am. not even 'a. .teetotaller, but I -think that : much can be done to'. 1 remedy that waste. Take, the man who '. has, say, four drinks a day. Jf he dia- : cides to have three each day instead pf : four, the country will save £1,000,000 . a< ■ year. 7. If he c^ down; the liquor by, * two . v glares, £2,000,000; , or. haVf the - amount spent each yea-).' in drink,, will jje saved, .1 am perfectly, filing? tp7giv6 up one, or tw6y . ph.eyeh^-inor^'; dr^riks-/ each' day, out flf. fojar, "and j .'< certain tMt^d.hariri ;will bpm6 W'jtie / by so- doing* but that Land tW country 1 will bo all the better for it." .""■•" ;;