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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12407, 27 August 1918, Page 5

Our Akaroa correspondent writes; Though we have had some beautiful fine days of late, spring is very late, brass is hardly growing yet, and the ground, is still too cold and wet 'to enable much work to bo done in tl® gardens. A few lambs are to be sees about the Peninsula, but it will be two 01 , * weeks before lambing is geneial. borne of the dairy factories expect to commence operations nox't week, but the supply of milk will be small at first. Competent authorities calculate the direct annual cost to N.Z. of the Liquor Traffic as £4,500,000 per annum. ’fho indirect cost is at least as much m.'Jt't. If; therefore, Prohibition is carried into ohect at once the saving to the Dominion would be well over £30,000,000. Hence the National Efficiency Board’s recommendation that compensation should be paid—otherwise under the Statute tho trade must continue for four aud a half years after Prohibition is carried. Every fair-minded elector, no matter what his personal views, must support the Alliance Monster Petition asking that the people should have an opportunity of voting,on the Board’s proposal. Xo