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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11611, 10 August 1918, Page 6

I The National Efficiency Boar; and Repo Prohibition lied to the Government, July “Evidence was tendered by more than sixty witnesses, drawn from various classes of the community, and the matter was investigated from as many aspects as were presented, and where possible, statements have been traced and verified. The Witnesses “The witnesses who tendered themselves represented brewers, hotelkeepers; wine and spirit merchants, chartered clubs, employees in hotels and in clubs, hop and barley growers, and merchants. vine-growers and winemakers, the New Zealand Alliance and other temperance organizations; there were also independent temperance advocates, representatives of certain Church bodies, and of Women and Children Protection Societies, The British and Foreign Sailors’ Society, general merchants, manufacturers. and "employers, including farmers. Judicial, magisterial, medical and military evidence was also taken. In connection with other inquiries the Board has had matters depending upon the Liquor Trade brought under its notice, and Ibis material has been considered by it in connection with the evidence specitically taken for this inquiry. the increased national thrift which is most desirable and which would follow the diversion to productive trade channels of the money now spent upon liquor would, in the opinion of the Board, as evidenced by world-wide experience where the abolition or reduction of the use of alcoholic liquor has operated, more than counteract the loss of public revenue now received from this source. That the money now spent on liquor, if its sale were stopped, would be spent or invested in some other direction. If spent, the expenditure or indirectly, a revenue to the State; if invested it becomes subject to annual taxation. large sums of money have been invested in breweries, in licensed houses, in wine and spirit; businesses, in vineyards and hop-gardens, and generally in what is known as "(lie 'Trade.’’ It is manifest that injustice would arise, if the licenses and the Liquor Trade wore sumumril}terminated without reasonable comi eKsaiion. Compensation — Why Recommended Prohibition a benefit to the Nation The Points for Consideration 'There are three main points for consideration, each in itself separate and distinct;— (a.) As to the moral effect upon the life and progress of the nation erase:! by the manufacture, sale, and consumption or alcoholic driuu. r h.) As 1" ihn public revenue derived from file operations of the liquor traffic. As to whether the liquor traffic encroaches upon, hinders, or retards the efficiency, of the nation. As to whether the Liquor Traffic lowers the physical and mental standard, and so reduces the productive value of the individual and colledively of the people. As to wiudhor the .Liquor 'Traffic causes a national economic loss. 'With regard to (a.): The Board has not pinnated its judgment, to bo influenced by the moral aspect of the question. but has arrived at ;'ls conclusions quite apart therefrom. How the L oss SprtTffLlS With regard to (c): From a national-efficiency point of view ttie Board is convinced that it would bo beneficial to the nation and conducive to the well-being of the people that the importation, manufacture, and sale of wines, beer, and spirituous liquors (including medicinal preparations containing alcohol) should be prohibited. This view is supported by results obtained in our own country under conditional Prohibition, and this experience is confirmed wherever Prohibition has operated. Exemptions It would ho necessary to exempt methylated alcohol for commercial purposes and pure alcohol for chemical or medicinal requirements. The People should Decide—Why In Reventn r *'- ? bC' met would largely is a Government question, and the comments (hat the Board offers thereon are—That the people should be better able to provide the necessary ■ mrumt of taxation if the inefficiency at present created by the effects of alcohol is removed. That less expenditure will he required in connection with the Police and Prisons Departments, the Hospital and Charitable Aid Boards, the mental hospitals, the inebriate homes, and for other public institutions. That The Board finds that, the two chief- factors in the continuance of the Liquor Trade are public custom and the financial interests involved. The Board is satisfied ilu-t the greatest efficiency would be attained boih for the nation and the individual by a state of complete Prohibition, but the Board recognises that Prohibition is a people’s question, am! Humid be determined only by an expression of the voice of the people. It therefore recommends that jegiVation be passed submitting tin question of National frobibitiou to a vote of the people at the earliest possible moment, and that, such vole should be upon the basis of immediate Prohibition accompanied by reasonable compensation to the interests affected. Any compensation paid to those engaged in the Liquor Trade would for the greater part remain and be invested within the Dominion and thus be used for production and trade. Under the protection of the existing legislation (which in the event of National Prohibition being cari ied grants an extended term of trading rights before Prohibition becomes operative) The Board is therefore satisfied that, it would be in the interest of the Dominion and of ifs Tlmbitauis, in order to obtain an early discouiiumtucu of the sale of alcoholic liquors, that reasonable compensation should lie granted to those affected. The Board is of opinion it will be found that no compensation need lie given to individual employees, as all male ami L male employees conk! lie absorbed in other occupations. In its judgement, all interests having boon considered, • the parties to be compensated are represented by the breweries, wholesale and retail licensed vendors, vignerons and wino-niaimracMnvrs, hop-growers, amt the owners of properties to which a retail license is attached. The Board believes that the compensation to he paid for the immediate closing of the Liquor 'Trade should be. based upon the diffm-ruco between the mmkot value of I lie- assets as used at present, taking into considers : ion Die present licensing ko"s and the oilier e;renmsianm s mul com hi. ;■ associated wilh lie La.in. and the value of such assets wit limit a license. Compensation need not be Cash 'The amounts to h- paid by way of conipcnsat ion need not neeess;!; iiy L. found in cash, but, the Board suggests, might, ho paid in (lovernmcut securities In a ring the same rate <>f in‘> nvi, and the same currency as the wai-loan debentures. Immediate Prohibition the Basis Increased National Efficiency Recoups the Cost The Board is s-qr (•,..] iliat compel!.*!;;i<.;i i ■' on (ho foregoing lines wmiid he a sound inv<u L.mnl, for the State, and that (lie cost would be rcconpuo by increased national efficiency: If the Hovenlmoni decides to submit this proposal to Parliament, the Board would he prepared, if requested so to do, to advise as to the form of constitution and procedure of a tribunal suitable to determine the amounts of compensation to be paid. < f The Board judges the present public sentiment to l:>e such that the people of the Dominion would approve of the opportunity being afforded to them of voting upon this question,” hi conclusion, the Board places on record that whilst at first it looked into this matter from the point of view of war conditions, yet as the inquiry preceded it became apparent that in the interests of national efficiency the Board had to consider the liquor question from the point of view of the efficiency of the State and the individual both during the war and afterwards, and it has therefore submitted its recommendations so as to promote permanent national efficiency. s Alliance Monster Ps!i! : Sign ru • n nr» 1 f it i i 01 w EL Vj v. to) TO .a

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