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Shannon News, 3 November 1925, Page 3

:E election results and a; good ptctore at tiio Maoiilaiul Theatre on Wednesday night. Results screened immediately they come to hand. LECTION RESULTS will lw J screened, at the Maoriland Theatre on Wednesday evening as soon as 11:ley come through. No extra,'charge-. See them.-in comfort.' • GENERAL MEETING of the Shanl non Choral Society will be held after the practice night on Thursday .next and all .members are asked to attend. Business important. The committee will meet the same niaht at 7 o'clock.

i««niiw^ Speaking of the U.S.A. under Prohibition in the House in September, 1924, the late Rt. Hon. W. F. Massey, P.C., Prime Minister, said:— "Most other countries had been exceedingly anxious to reduce their taxation, as was indicated in the press from day to day. America had probably been the most consistent country in this respect, She had been wonderfully successful in restoring the prosperity of the country." This is clearly evident from the following plain facts: — GREAT BRITAIN in 1924 spent £316,000,000 on intoxicating drink, which resulted in £137,100,000 being collected as revenue. Taxation is the highest in the world, £ls 18s. Od. per head. New Zealand in 1924 spent £8,494,459 on intoxicants, resulting in the collection of £1,826,839 as Revenue in that year. Taxation is £l2 Bs. Od. per head. The U.S.A. in 1924 collected NO Revenue from the legalised beverage Liquor Traffic. Taxation is only £6 14 10 per head. (It used to collect £100,000,000 per annum before National Prohibition). Taxation is to be further reduced by £80,000,000 this year. The Liquor Traffic is' advertising a loss of £700,000 per annum in liquor revenue as compared with its statement in 1922, and yet TAXATION REDUCTIONS MADE SINCE 1923 AMOUNT TO £3,000,000 per annum. Land and Income Tax reduced; 3d. per lb. off Tea Duty; Tobacco Duty reduced; Amusement Tax reduced; and Penny Postage reintroduced. And even after that the Government had a surplus bigger than the entire liquor revenue. New Zealand can do without liquor revenue, which costs inefficiency and degradation, and hampers production. k A !!iliii!M!Millf