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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 75, 23 November 1922, Page 7

TO VOTE POR PROHIBITION Strike Out the Two Top I' (4) ! CONTINtfAN€EI VOTE FOR STATE PURCHASE AND CQNTROtr (3) I VOTE FOR NATIONAL PROHIBITION To vote Prohibition amply take the pencil provided and mark a? 3 through the two top lines as illustrated. Take a pencil and do I it now so that you will know exactly what to do on Polling Day. You must strike out two lines or your vote will net count. The two top linea stand for a continuation of the Liquor Trade that ds why it is nbcsssary to strike them out to vote for Prohibition. PROHIBITION IS COMMON SENSE.

A VIOLENT DISLOCATION OF THE PUBLIC FINANCES. SHREWD SUMMARY OF PROBABILITIES. { “We are told” says the “Otago Daily Times” in a cogent leader under date October 19th, 1922 “that at the present time there is an expenditure of seven millions or so per annum upon drink in New Zealand, and that the revenue which accrues in consequence to the State amounts to about two and a half millions. The suggestion is that if these seven million, instead of being spent on drink, were spent on clothing and fumitur© and boots and shoes upon theatres and Joy-rides and luxuries, the revenue obtained from the Government would not bo smaller than it now is. We cannot, however, be at all certain about this. High duties are levied, upon alcohol, it is very unlikely that the expenditure upon other goods of tho amount at present spent on drink, would yield the State a revenue nearly equal to that derived by it from the liquor duties. There would, in this event, be a gap in the revenue that would have to be filled by the proceeds of taxation from some other source. Moreover, it is certain that the immediate effect o the enactment of prohibition would be a rather voilent dislocation of the public finances. It is because this is rdcguised by Mr Massey who is the Minister responsible for the public finances, that he hinted recently that, if Prohibition was carried it might bo necessary that Parliament should meet in the early months of the year. Tho Government must bo as secure as possible in its finance, and it cannot safely take the risk of trusting to the loss of revenue upon liquor being straightway made up to it from some other source. It must so regulate its finance as to ensure that it shall receive the revenue it requires. it may be surmised, therefore, that the immediate effect of the enactment of Prohibition would be that tho duties would be increased upon articles such as tea and sugar, which go into general consumption and are therefore the most dependable sources of rovonuue, to make good a probable deficiency in revenue. In other words special taxation would have to be looked for.” Mr Massey in his election manifesto, said that he hoped to reduce the burden of taxation. The implied doubt as to tho feasibility of such a course was quite obviously expressed with a view to tho possibility of a Prohibition vote. Mr Massey knows that in such an event it would bo impossible to reduce taxation — indeed, to avoid increasing it. Every responsible adult must realise the folly of increasing tho cost of living by throwing away liquor rev-mu. Two and a half millions sterling arcpaid annually as a voluntary contribution to natural revenue bv consumers of alcohol. No perse..* objects to payi ig the tax ne d buy the liauor. Bui if this largo amount is lost to the State through Prohibition. it must be made good (r, taxes on necessities, which everyone must buy. Vote Continuance, and keep down taxation and the high cost of .jvinp.

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