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Waipa Post, Volume II, Issue 66, 1 December 1911, Page 4

PR# ■W'SP'I m N RAMS REDUCED TAMTIiM, £200,000 J Less faxes per Anniim. The Liquor Traffic is MOT A SOURCE OF REVENUE, but only a channel, and a Very Leaky Channel at that. The annual wholesale expenditure upon alcoholic liquor is £3*803,43?. For this very large expenditure the exchequer only profits to the small extent ot £.259,507. This is all that is left of the £847,275 paid as revenue, after deducting the proportion of cost which the Liquor Trade entails upon the Dominion, for the up~keep of prisons, asylums, hospitals, police, criminal prosecutions, charitable aid, industrial schools, and other charges which are due to its excesses and lawlessness. If the £3,803,438 now spent upon liquor was expended upon other articles of general utility and paid the average rate of customs duty, there would be a revenue of £461,000, whereas the balance from the Liquor Trade is only ■ £259,507. Thus'THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC CAUSES a LOSS TO THE PUBLIC EXCHEQUER of £201,493 plus cost of private charity and loss to thousands of New Zealand citizens of character, mental and physical health, social and domestic happiness and prosperity, and the sacrifice of hundreds of lives. The Right Honourable Joseph Chamberlain said: “If I could destroy to-morrow the desire for strong drink in the people of England, what changes should we see. We should see our taxes reduced by millions sterling.” Other statements that the revenue derived from strong drink represents a loss to the country have been made by the Right Honourable W. E, Gladstone, England’s greatest Chancellor; Sir Stafford Northcote, who was Gladstone’s rival Chancellory LordRandolph Churchill, Chancellor in the Salisbury administration; Hon. George E. Foster, Canadian Treasurer; Sir Harry Atkinson; and Mr Ballance, of New Zealand. 'he Liquor Party does not quote authorities, but makes statements on Taxation which' are untrue, IE GHALLI jp L ,;^The i: retail costj- of alcoholic liquor to tie gauntry i§ over per annum, aM thist. large sum (MS|||'M|a.:or £25 pe£ Maily of S), is wojfte than wasted. : AJaAfire. Oiit.ffliE LPOR TRAFFIC AND SAVE " W' ; ' ' £2f01,4'93 AMSSALLY, , llndTiecure reduction of Customs Land Taxes . “ ft • ‘ | ' ; ' ‘ S? m x- - ■ ■V, ■-< J |pa : J \V.y X-■ be.TOMJNE On both ■: x -5 r:i>u M- >•- ■ ■Sli m Vi <, •V : ' nx i ... A' ‘ .......