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Waikato Times, Volume 90, Issue 14024, 29 March 1919, Page 6

WHAT DOES PROHIBITION MEAN IT MEANS—1. That on the Ist July, 1919, no Alcoholic Liquor, Beer, Whisky, Brandy, Wine, etc., will be procurable in New Zealand. 2. That the glass of beer or whisky which people have enjoyed as a natural portion of their daily food will be no longer available. 3. That SLY GROG Distilling and Sly Grog and Methylated Spirit Drinking will replace regulated dealing ■ in liquor. 4. That the Compensation of £4,500,000 to be paid to the Trade will be avoided if Prohibition is carried EIGHT MONTHS HENCE in-i stead of April 10. 5. That the SOCIAL GLASS with wife j or friend will be a thing of the j past. 7. That all SOCIAL GATHERINGS,! Farewells, or Welcomes, Concerts, Savage Clubs, and every occasion where friends meet, will be without the assistance of the customary glass of beer or wine. 1 7. That all Clubs, whether chartered or not, will be merely places in which to eat —the social side will disappear entirely. 8. That you will be unable to brew' or manufacture Ginger Beer, Hop Beer, or Wine of any kind IN YOUR HOME. 9. That it unduly discriminates between the wealthy and the working man. The rich will have tw r o months in which to buy all the liquor they require for a lifetime; the worker, through lack of funds, will be unable to do this, and after June 30 can only secure liquor illegally. 10. That the police will have the RIGHT OF ENTRY into your homes to sec that such manufacturing is not going on. 11. That when you travel from Auckland within New Zealand the hotels will be conspicuous by their absence. 12. That IN SICKNESS you will require to obtain a permit from a doctor, which involves the payment of his fee, before you will be able to obtain any Brandy or Wine. The keeping of the customy bottle of Brandy or Whisky in the home, in case of sickness, may even be construed a criminal offence. 13 That for all this you will have to pay inevitably £4,500,000 as Compensation to the Licensed Hotel Trade, and pay interest of £225,000 per annum for 39 years, or £8,775,000, and provide a Sinking Fund at a cost of £1,728,075, making a TOT. A L COST of at least £10,503,675. 14. That the ANNUAL COST of the raising of this money, and the annual loss of revenue now paid through the Customs, etc., will be £1,539,325. 15. That in order to replace this £1,539,325, now VOLUNTARILY’ contributed by those drinking Beer, Spirits, or Wine, all must be taxed either directly through the Land and Income Taxes or inv directly through the Customs. 16 That this revenue being lost, MUST BE REPLACED. No portion of it can be saved; the fantastic talk about one third of the National Wealth, the growth of eighty years, being equal to one year’s National Output, and resulting in a large income, can bo dismissed for what it is worth. It is on a par with the utterly ridiculous and false statement that 55 per cent.of our Old-age Pensioners, of the Sick in our Hospitals, of the Mentally Afflicted in our Asylums, of the Criminals in our Gails will DIE on the Ist July, 1919, and so enable £BIO,ooo" to be saved annually. 17. That it will induce the taking of insidious DRUGS, just as it has done in the Prohibition States of America and Canada. 18. That it will inflate the' DIVORCE figures, as it has in Maine, U.S.A., where the proportion of Divorces to Marriages is one in six, whereas in New Y'ork it is only one in forty-one. 19. That the COST OF LIVING must inevitably be increased. 20. That Lunacy will not be decreased, but that Drug-taking and Sly Grog Drinking will tend to increase it. 21. That the people—especially the manual workers —will when deprived of their customary diet be LESS Efficient. 22. That Prohibition of Drink is merely the FORERUNNER of prohibition of Tobacco, Sport, Week-.end Picnics, and Dancing. 23. That it is a direct infringement of the right of British Liberty, and is a Yankee GBT-GOOD-QUICK Scheme. • 1 24. That Prohibition, if carried on April 10, 1919, will be PERMANENT; so that it is useless to vote for Prohibition in the hope of bringing in Slate Control.

THEREFORE, STRIKE OUT THE BOTTOM LINE. VOTE FOR CONTINUANCE. ON APRIL 10. 871 Public Notices. (A Card.) M ll Q ILI!ERT pAIIKEH. Specialist in Voice Production and Singing. From the Tloyal College of .Music, Loudon. Studio at Residence, Bridge street (Overlooking Traffic Bridge). ’Phono 079. 772 H. CRACKNELL A.P.A.N.Z. (By Exam.) Public Accountant, Auditor, and Company Secretary. SMITH’S BUILDINGS, HAMILTON. ’Phone 701. P.O. 13 qx 187. H. J. WERNHAM Accountant and Company Secretary. Has Removed from Jcsmond Chambers to LIVINGSTONE CHAMBERS, VICTORIA STREET. Phone 851 HAMILTON. One of the simplest and most effectual of household remedies for stomach troubles in young children is SHARLAND’S MAGNESIA. Is 3d per bottle everywhere. (3)