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Observer, Volume XXXV, Issue 13, 5 December 1914, Page 11

Is this the Time to try an Expensive and Very Doubtful Experiment? _^ ——— f Do You Do You Pay LAND TAX ? Understand the real meaning of Prohibition ? And are you one of the contributors of the £728,000 which is raised annually for Government purposes by this J There are TWO BALLOT PAPERS : source ? LOCAL NO-LICENSE If SO, and v -n n t-t-a- NATIONAL PROHIBITION now will Prohibition Aff * VniT 9 IF LOCAL CONTINUANCE IS NOT CARRIED, every /\lieCl IvU > Hotel, Bottle, and Packet License in the affected area lapses on 30fch June, 1915. All Club Charters in the affected area Last year the Government received £950,000 by taxes <*P ire - Private Lockers become a orime - from the Licensed Trade, and a further £100,000 was paid jf N a tj o nal Prohibition IS carried by the Licensed Trade in railway freights, making a the Question cannot be again Voted total of over m 4„ upon until 1923. One NfllllOn Annually The carrying of National Prohibition means more than the mere closing of Hotels, it Prohibits : If Prohibition is carried, how can this be replaced ? TTK/> IWf 2%1\1f f2%/»tllf*4> The farming community already has many burdens, TTHa Sale perhaps more than its full share, but it is almost certain that # the deficit in the revenue following on Prohibition would have Or the Importation to be met by of any Alcoholic Liquor in the Dominion. • A MORE than No Private Individual will be permitted to BREW BEER, TIAfTDf I?T% ¥ A T 1 or MAKE ANY WINE for his own consumption. n a tfc ern pfc i s made under the Act to provide for alcoholic stimulants in the case of sickness on production of a medical Are you prepared for this, do you think it reasonable, certificate, and for sacramental purposes, but as the Law and can you afford it ? prohibits sale, manufacture, or importation, where is it to come from ? If you don't believe in penalising the farming community once Nationa i Prohibition is carried, this state of affairs for the purpose of financing a doubtful experiment, then see cannot be remedied for eight years. Make no mistake. to it that your friends as well as yourself Prohibition means the absolute stoppage of all liquor in New Zealand through legal channels, even for Weddings --. .- . .+ n/\TT/Mf and Social Functions, EVERYWHERE. Strike out the BOTTOM _ . , , , . Defend your freedom by Line On both IsSUeS. I Striking out the Bottom Line on both papers STRIKE OUT the BOTTOM LINE On Both Ballot Papers