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Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14874, 24 September 1918, Page 4

More than one elector has already been misled by, the Liquor Trade's Petition. That remarkable document is so artfully constructed that it is no i wonder that voters have failed to grasp exactly' what tliey"are supporting when they sign it. It purports-to .ask- for a "fair, just, and reasonable" poll to decide by a bare majority the three issues of National Continuance, National Ownership and National Prohibition. It also provides that every voter is to vote for one issue only, and that no issu.e is to be carried unless it secures a majority of the total votes caston the three issues. What is the effect' of this? It secures for the Trade aj three-to-pno chance. If National Ownership is carried the Trade wins! If National Continuance is carried, the Trade wins! If no issue is carried, the Trade wins. If 500,000 voters go to the poll and 250,000 vote for National Prohibition, 150,000 for National Ownership, and 100,000 for National Continuance, the Trade wins, for no issue secures the required bare majority of 250,001. This is the Liquor Trade's "fair, just, and reasonable" proposal.1 It is fair that every elector should have a vote, it is just that the vote be on a bare majority basis, it is reasonable that the vote be on the basis of the National Efficiency Board's Recommendation. This is what the N.Z. Alliance Petition asks, and it is your duty to sign the N.Z. Alliance Petition and refu.se tv sign that on behalf; of Liquor, ■ if you have signed the latter under a misapprehension, ask your M.P. to have yoiir name removed or send word to the N.Z. Alliance representative at once.* 30