PROHIBITION IN NINE YEARS.
The Prohibitionists', are now 6.1 pex cent, short of three-fifths majority fox No-license throughout the entire counry, and miles there is a phenomenal reaction in public opinion the extinction of the licensed trade in New Zealand is not far distant. It tho No-license party were to boldly drop Local Option in favor of a national poll, all then surplus votes in individual electorates—particularly in No-license areas —could be utilised where they are now'wasted. Local Option under existing conditions is merely Reduction on a wholesale scale, and produces the. gravest injustice by sacrificing particular licensees for the benefit of others engaged in the trade. Both parties ought to be willing to substitute a national poll, when -the trade and 1 electors would know just exactly where they stood, and what the country was really being committed to.— 1 Christchurch News. ’
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2452, 17 March 1909, Page 2
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143PROHIBITION IN NINE YEARS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2452, 17 March 1909, Page 2
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