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IT MEANS PERSECUTION. *■ . - YOU WOULD LOSE THE RIGHT OF DETERMINATION. IT WOULD COMPEL THE SUBJECT TO USE DRUGS. IT WOULD ENCOURAGE SLY GROG SELLING. IT WOULD MAKE CRIMINALS AND LAW BREAKERS, IT WOULD DESTROY THE < PRIVACY OF THE- HOME. Head latest move by Prohibitionists in America taken from ."New York Journal of Commerce/ dated February 24th, 1919:— ■ ■• ■- ■■" "■. ■ ' ."' . . .;.■ ,_■'■ # . "At Prohibition .Conference held at Albany 23rd February, 1919, it endorsed a Bill that is now before the Senate called ♦ "THE WALKER SEARCH AND SEIZURE BILL," ! ' "which if carried gives power to the State to SEARCH every PRIVATE HOME and confiscate all alcoholic beverages kept for private con- . sumption." ARE WE NEW ZEALANDERS INEFFICIENT? FACTS AND FIGURES FR,OM GOVERNMENT RETURNS TO SHOW WE ARE NOT. .- ■' ■■; . ■.-■ ■' ' : ■ „ /.; \\ / V 'ESTIMATED WEALTH PER HEAD of Total Population, £303. Adult^ Population, £469. CCROOPS RAISED AND TRAINED IN NEW ZEALAND For War Purposes: 124,000. MONEY SUBSCRIBED FOR PATRIOTIC PURPOSES: £12,000,000 .[. lOTAL AMOUNT WAR LOANS RAISED IN THE DOMINION - IN DEFENCE OF LIBERTY, D EMOCRACY, and THE RIGHT OF SELF-DETERMINATION: £41,000,000. THE ABOVE ARE SOLID FACTS. Compare these figures with the achievements of other countries, and SHOW US ONE THAT IS MORE EFFICIENT THAN NEW ZEALAND. THEREFORE: WHY SHOULD WE THROW AWAY £6^000,000 THIS YEAR and increase the already heavy burden of the Taxpayei- by £1,500,000 each year indefinitely? DON'T BE MISLED OR CAJOLED 'by the shibboleths of FOREIGN PAID AGITATORS who have no stake in the country, and will not have to bear their share of the BURDEN TH EY ARE TRYING TO HANG ROUND YOUR NECK. 3>O YOUR OWN THINKING^ AND DEMAND THE RIGHT OF SELF- '' DETEKiMINATXON IN THIS MATTER.

ADVANCE NELSON! BUT HOW? By looking within. By looking ahead. By looking before^-and after. , -Millions of untouched wealth lying at our very doors., And what are _we doing? \ Wliy, simply this: Saying glibly by - oft usage—Ain't the town slow? Arn't .things horrid dead? Twiddling our thumbs—looking for s.3o—and meanwhile reflecting on .the sad, sad fate ipf Wm. Hollow Zorhn. j - I Is that net so? Who is to blame? And every week we send friends out ■ <>f the town! If "a "place is worth living ; ■ in, it should be worth supporting. -■ Cultivate a little Local Patriotism, Try "Novelties." Look within. See ■ the stock v 3 keep. Intelligently coni- -- pare values. This paper costs you 9d. .' weekly—got that out of "Novelties." USE YOUR NUT. • Stacks of New Stock at both Shops - j WaluG"super-excellent. Try us. X" - HARDY AND BRIDGE STREETS ■•■-,- NELSON.