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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 1, 23 September 1918, Page 7

Voters in tiiis eluctorate are- being asked to sign a counter-petition to that circulated by the N.Z. Alliance. Beforedoing so examine this counter-petition o:i behalf of the liquor mul sec just what it asks and what it involves. In tho first place it claims to ask for a "fair, just, and reasonable poll.'' This is hovit proposes to secure- it. Every voter is to vote fur one issue only, and no issue is to be carried unless it secures n, majority of the total votes cast on thn tljroo issues. Tliese provisions Rive Liquor a .I to 1 chance—long odds, with a vengeance. 500,000 electors won l<l probably vote on the issues. Suppose t!i.\* 23(1,000 favour National Prohibition, 150,1100 voted for National Ownership, and 100,000 voted for National Continuance— what happens? Continuance wins, for no issue has secured a majority of tho total voles cast. This is the petition the 'J'rauo asks electors to sign. By extending the issues il; uses its old method of splitting tlio votes, and secures for ilsclf another lease of life. Kememhor these facts wlien you are asked to sign (he Liquor Traffic's Petition. Do your part—sij:n the Alliance Muiisler I'otition for n poll this year on a straight issue—tho National Efficiency Board's Recommendation after an impartial investigation, which heard BvkTenco from every side and class. If you have signed the Liquor Petition under a misapprehension, ask your JF.P. to have your name withdrawn, or semi word to the N./i. Alliance JJepresentativo at once.—Advt. Oh. beware how you trifie with fortune, Once you're down all the world will despise; To defeat fraud, dwit. and extortion, Be cautious and thrifty and wise, And beware of the Irnaclierous winter There's coughs, colds, and chills to endure: In preservinij ynur liciilHi Ijp no pi inter, Tiike Woods' (Ireat Peppermint fur". ' -Advt. NAZOIi. tlioiigh imitated, has no equal ns a remedy for couitlis fliid colds. Cot. Rcnuini! NAZOI/— bolter than i-ny mixture or syrup. Sixty doses Is. (id.—Advt.