Page 12 Advertisements Column 1

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 288, 24 August 1918, Page 12

ijflittfaellpirliic | I j r : | j [ Face the Facts! 1 The Million a Year Revenue received from drink is more than | i|". l r outweighed by the heavy burden of taxation, the reduced national j I efficiency , and the moral wreckage it causes. ,| 1 Money spent on drink is a direct loss—it The Liquor Trade practically says:—"Give j | is an expenditure for which no tangible me £5,000,000 a year and I'll give you . | asset remains. The same amount spent £1,000,000 back to help pay your tax- j I on public works would provide permanent ationl" | assets and valuable adjuncts to the develop- ~ , . , r\t 7 , »m ■ j I .t.l •r> • • It is lor the people ot ISI.Z. to say:— No i ! #. raent ot the Dominion. .1 1 w - c . r i f . ... thank you! We reluse to pay you live I | There is only one true standard by which m j| l!ons a year> and we )lave leBS !, ! , | pubhc expenditure can be judged-the value nee d f or taxation!" !' i I f of the public service it provides, Viewed _ + ;. ' I | under either War or Peace conditions money It would be just as foolish to double the j —* in drink is unprofitable and unjustifiable drink bill in order to double the revenue j ill effects far outweigh any revenue as it is to spend £5,000,000 a year to get • ed from it. £1,000,000 annual revenue. jThe Truth About the Revenue it two-thirds of the money now spent on liquor were spent on im- > bearing 20% duty, the customs revenue would profit by £635,000. would still leave free for investment within the Dominion the lining one-third of the present Drink Bill, while a probable annual lg of at least £750,000 would be effected in the proportionately :ced charges for Prisons,' Hospitals, etc. The total amount of liquor ! nue, plus the £225,000 required to provide interest and sinking fund le proposed amount of compensation to "The Trade" can thus easily lade up from legitimate trade channels. rink is the Enemy of, Efficiency Drive drink from the Dominion and you increase the efficiency of the people. This is the positive consideration which must be remembered. ft mean 3 many millions more pounds credit to the National Exchequer. verdict of the National Efficiency The National Efficiency Board found also lis that "the people should be better "that the two chief factors m the continuance 0 provide the necessary amount of tax- of The Liquor Trade are public custom, and if the inefficiency at present created by the financial interests involved." The Board j fectslof alcohol is removed." Also that was satisfied further "that the greatestefficiency ost of compensation "would be recouped would be attained both for the nation and the icreased National Efficiency." individual by a state of Complete Prohibition." The People Should Decide The ordinary Licensing poll having been denied to us we are urging , | Parliament to grant a poll this year to decide the continuance or the j : abolition of the Liquor Traffic. 1 ; ie N,Z. Alliance Monster Petition will '■ , i give, us-the Poll—Sign'dt To-day! : i j l'.! ...... . , 4 ! S GARDEN TOOLS! CARBIDE _ CARBIDE WE'-HAVE JUST LANDED OUR NEW SEASON'S STOCK OF GARDEN' ■ ' [TOOLS FROM THE BEST MAKERS, including the following:— LAEfs'Y vL CSS In I Alv Yj Hedge' Shears, g pr ; n ]j| ergi Limited lawn mowers SSSSt. JSmS-mrn* Kfffc. ' MERCHANTS, WELLINGTON, Branch Cutters. Ransome's Anglo-Paris. Pruning Saws. Digging Forks.' j'" 13 * 0 "" Reaping Hooks. IIAA r E JUST LANDED Draining Spades.. AMERICAN. Scythes. Dutch Hoes. Arcade. ' Sprayers. Edging Knives. Favourite. Sets of Ladies' Tools. • 100 DRUMS OF CARBIDE. tetS. Lakewood. prayers. ; Garden Shears. New Easy.- Spades. Grubbing Hoes. New Rover. Slashers. Pi'ifV n\ APPT rr\TT(W Grass Sheare. Premier. Turf Cutters. IRIU, ON Al ILIOAIIOiN. Grass Hooks. Weeding Forks. JOHN DUTHIE & Co,, Ltd. a pOIJMTAir^ HARDWARE & METAL MERCHANTS, WILLIS STREET ® AlgfC TELEPHONES. Town' Department, 3006; Country Department, 15G; W I¥ I Offices, 573; Iron Yard, 2MII. I i .. 1 J SUPPLIES, fluHSil T | tG£o_.. —, . 1 BAST OA) 1 PURc-DEPEMDABLEiV/INES-lor.Luncheon op — CHICAGO jj ! DlnnefTapoybf the graateat'.valuojfor'promoting' general.good health. ' fl; :i".OtEN"fIOYAL ,, 'VVlno3}(the}productß.olithos. World's |Lcatllng>Vlne. -4 - | ■ yardaJ are/flbaolutelyjPiiro.'.Fullyir/iaturccl'nncriVloderato ln!Vlco. Stock held in N.Z. by die Sole Agcnttt\ I* . ' .'INSIST |ni-" r 6CEN-RO.YALBRAND g HENRY BERRY & GO., §li !a r i(j'vouTv , /ill!'avoltlTthoTiniurlo , us'reffects'as3oclatotl : wlth' T atlulterated Wakefield Street, Wellington, • fl\ f ■wlnes'of immature and inferiority, k And at Auckland.l'«med.„, MX Wholesale aocnts- maling a co. ltd . CHRisrcHunch (P OOD Printing promptly produced at I ' — -y ViT popular prices at "Dominion" Job W .. o «———-—.a"- n i Printing Works,