PUBLIC WARNING
LIQUOR’S LATEST!
DR. VALINTINE’S INDIGNANT REPUDIATION.
“IMPUDENT USE OF MY NAME!"
(Special to Waikato Times.)
On learning of “liquor’s” latest subterfuge in displaying and circulating a so-called “proclamation” bearing his name, Dr T. H. A. Valintine (Chief Health Officer and Inspector-General of Hospitals),, telegraphs ns follows:
“Firstly, I have to say that the proclamation did nl emanate from myself, or from any officer of the Public Health Department, and I never attached nay official or private signature to any proclamation in connection with the licensing movement.
“Secondly, I have never authorised any person or persons to use my name as health officer or as a private citizen in connection with any such statement, and am taking immediate steps to prevent this impudent use of my name. “You are liberty to make any use you like of this telegram.
“(Signed) VALINTINE, Chief Health Officer.”
This bogus “proclamation” is profitably the most cold-blooded, heartless and infamous fake ever perpetrated on a long-suffering public. The "proclamation” deliberately sets out to scare and inflame the public mind with threats of a return of the late and appalling epidemic, and implies that by voting prohibition on April 10 the people of New Zealand will leave themselves unable to gel adequate supplies of liquor.
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Waikato Times, Volume 90, Issue 14024, 29 March 1919, Page 7
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210PUBLIC WARNING Waikato Times, Volume 90, Issue 14024, 29 March 1919, Page 7
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