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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12405, 24 August 1918, Page 6

L M M xm RERHMAT dA 'ft. SON !W m inn nun I ¥hat it Costs You* l t': N -a The Million a Year Revenue received from drink is more than outweighed by the heavy burden of taxation, the reduced national efficiency and the moral wreckage it causes. ...^ Money spent on drink is a direct loss—it is an expenditure for which no tangible asset remains. The same amount spent on public works would provide permanent assets and valuable adjuncts to the development of the Dominion. There is only one true standard by which public expenditure can be judged—the value of the public service it provides, Viewed undel* either War of Peace conditions money spent in drink is unprofitable and unjustifiable —its ill effects far outweigh any revenue received from it. The Liquor Trade practically says:—"Give me £5,000,000 a year and I'll give you £ 1,000,000 back to help pay your taxation 1" It is for the people of N.2. to say ;—"No thank you! We refuse to pay you five millions a year, and we shall have less need for taxation 1" It would be just as foolish to double the drink bill in order to double the revenue as it is to spend £5,000,000 a year to get £ 1,000,000 annual revenue. ■' If but two-thirds of the money now spent on liquor were spent on imports bearing 20 % duty, the customs revenue would profit by £635,000. This would still leave free for investment within the Dominion the remaining one-third of the present Drink Bill, while a probable annual saving of at least £750,000 would be effected in the proportionately reduced charges for Prisons, Hospitals, etc. The total amount of liquor revenue, plus the £225,000 required to.provide interest and sinking fund on the proposed amount of compensation to "The Trade*' can thus easily be made up from legitimate trade channels. „ " Drive drink from the Dominion and you increase the efficiency of the people. This is the positive consideration which must be remembered. It means many millions more pounds credit to the National Exchequer. V The impartial verdict of the National Efficiency Board is that "the people should be better able to provide the necessary amount of taxation if the inefficiency at present created by the effects of alcohol is removed.” Also that the cost of compensation “would be recouped by increased National Efficiency." The National Efficiency Board found alto “that the two chief factors in the continuance of. The Liquor Trade are public custom, and the financial intercsts involved." The Board was satisfied further "that the greatest efficiency would be attained both for the nation and the individual by a state of Complete Prohibitioß." The ordinary Licensing poll having been-denied to us we are urging Parliament to grant a poll this year to decide the continuance or the abolition of the Liquor Traffic. The N.Z. Alliance Monster Petition■ will gwe us sign N.Z.A.—Efflclensj

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