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STATE PURCHASE NOT RECOMMENDED BY LORD D'ABERNON, WHO ORIGINATED THE CARLISLE STATE CONTROL EXPERIMENT. Speaking at Carlisle this 3 - ear, Lord fVAbernon said:— "The question of State Purchase is a very vast one, and the financial responsibility involved enormous. Moreover, this question does not 1 stand where it did. The example of the U.S.A. and of Canada, where the drink trade has been suppressed without compensation, cannot be without its effect on public opinion in this country. When action of this kind has been carried out by an advanced community on the other side of the Atlantic, it becomes increasingly • doubtful whether public opinion in this country, in a time of severe financial pressure would consider the payment of a sum like £500,000,000 to the Trade as eithor sound finance or generally expedient." STATE PURCHASE HAS NO FRIENDS. Governments do not like it. The Brewers are against it. The Prohibitionists know that it would prove an expensive failure. STRIKE OUT THE TWO TOP LINES ON POLLING DAY. 87a

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ADVERTISERS. CHRISTMAS, 1919. m Will Advertisers who require space for Christmas Advertising make arrangements before MONDAY, loth December, so as to ensure certainty of insertion ? 292 WAIKATO TIMES.