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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14738, 18 October 1918, Page 3

The beer strike at Broken Hill die? not last long. A number of men had objected to the publicans raising the price of beer, and at a meeting carried . a resolution to that effect. Within an hour of the meeting most of the hotels had ■ reverted! to the old rate. A nation cannot afford to \raste, tims experimenting with schemes which have proved useless elsewhere. The Liquor Trade of New Zealand, suggests that State' Control (State purchase and operation) should! be tried. South Carolina abolished the License system and' substituted a system of Government dispensaries .with Local Option. Year by year the number of. counties tolerating even the Government store decreased, ti3l m 1916 only sixteen comities remained "wet." Now State- wide Prohibition prevails, and the present , Governor, writing under date of 20th June, 1918, says:— "I do not believe anyoroe with an, open. : mind can .deny, that the liquor situation is better now m South Carolina than it has ever been, and!' there has also been a marked and gratifying improveTnent m moral conditions and m the jmppression of vice." The only State that tried Government' operation n6\v enjoys Prohibition. 48 <