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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 167, 9 April 1919, Page 6

PUBLIC NOTICES. FINAL WARNING. , The Prohibition Parly does not claim to have made.no mistakes iu this Liquor Fight. It does claim not to have knowingly made any misstatements. < It regrets to need to point out that the' Liquor Party has been guilty cf DISTINCTLY DISHONOURABLE TACTICS. What Dr. Valiuline described as its "impudent use ot isy name" in the Bogus Proclamation about Influenza; its deliberate cooking of the cable about the release of spirits in Great Britain; its quotation of statements made nine years ago by Mr. Massey and Sir Joseph "Ward that extra taxation would follow Prohibition, as though they were,made on the reoent Licensing Act; its deceptive use of the name of the Chief : Justice ■ and- of.the Y.M.C.A.; its'flagrantly false figures about Maine (certified asjalse by the Editor of the "Dominion"), - and its equally false statement"about America having repudiated Prohibition by a majority of ' 250,000, ■ - .' .0 ' . BE AND IT AS ABSOLUTELY UNWORTHY OP; BELIEF. It is .certain to publish other alarmist statements with some semblance of.truth, but. as false as the above—such as Cables from Overseas, Opinions of apparently or .really eminent men, Statements Undated (nearly always old, but quoted. as new), So-called Financial Statements, So-called testimony about the failure of Prohibition. : 'All these, and, indeed, ANY.made by the Liquor Party, ELECTORS • APE WAENED NOT TO ACCEPT unless-:they, can verify! If the "Trade" advertises what it claims to be \ testimonies from CANADA, remember— - ■ •' ■■ SIR ROBERT BORDEN, PRIME MINISTER OF THE DOMINON, SAYS:- ... "Prohibition aa a Provincial measure has been in force in . eight out of nine Provinces sufficiently long to realise and confirm expectations of great benefits—moral, commercial, and industrial—consequent on its enforcement." And Governors and Premiers of individual States corroborate this testimony. i The answer to all misstatements about .UtERICA is that— ! . FORTY-FIVE OUT'OF FORTI'-EIGHT STATES have declared for PERMANENTPROHIBITION after the Stalei Elections in November last had been fought on this ;-, ■ issue. . ' . i ..; CAST TOUR VOTE FOR THE CHILDREN AND THE NATION! ' ,;•/';- \ '},■ '.. POLL EARLY TO-MOKROW. THE LIQUOR.- TRADE AND THE ■"': 'ASSOCIATION. ' I—At ifs:Annual Meeting in Wellington, on March 4, the British Medical Association received a deputation from the National Efficiency League and the New Zealand Alliance. , '■ ' 2.—The Deputation asked the Association to publicly express its (.pinion upon the influence ; of the Liquor Traffic on the'general health of the community. 3.'—'The Medical Association, after lengthy discussion, decided to submit the following questions to the individual members, and answers were requested not . later than March -22.- ' • ' A. Do you approve of alcohol as a medicine? - B. Do you believe that the efficiency of the community will be increased by the total suppression of alcohol ? . 4.—Objection was taken by the Efficiency League and the-Alliance to the form of the questions, and it was suggested that the following should be substituted:— "Are you of opinion that from a general health point of view it would bo . advantageous to the community if the use of, alcohol were prohibited ex--1 ■■■•.-•■ cept for medicinal,- sacramental, and 'industrial purposes?" The original questions had, however, been sent out. • 5— On April 3.thq Chairman of the Council of the Medical Association was requested by the New Zealand Alliance to publish the result of the referendum. IS.-He replied that'the result could not published owing to a technical • 'breach of the constitution. 7.—The, following letter was then 6ent to him.;— '' Wellington, April 5, 1019. Dr. Gieseh, Chairman of Council, Medical Association, ■ Wellington. Dear Sir — s- We have yours of the 4th insi, stating, that "owing to a technical fault in procedure the Association'is not able to publish the results of the referendum until the Divisions to which the question has been referred have dis-cussed-the matter." '■•,'■ ' , As the matter is of vital public importance, we desire to kuow whether it is not a fact;— I.—That the decision of the Division cannot possibly be obtained in time to bo •■ published before Polling Day, April 10. f - 2— That some hundreds of replies have been received. 3.—That the meeting at which it was decided not to publish the result of Ihe referendum was-called at the instigation of members personally interested in the liquor trade. 4.—That this meeting'was presided over by Dr. Fyfe. s'.—That he not only ca6t his deliberative vote in favour of holding up the publication of the result of the referendum, but also his casting vote, so that the matter was decided upon the .votes of Dr. Fyfe. 6.—That no important question has ever before in the hislory of the Association been decided on the deliberative and casting vote of the Chairman. 7.—That one of the Divisions has intimated to the Council that if the result, of ' the referendum is not published by Monday it will, on that date, make public the resolutions which it sent as a remit to the Animal Meeting, indthat this resolution was strongly favourable to Prohibition. In view of the urgency of (he matter, we shall be glad to have an immediate reply. ' . ■ ' Yours faithfully, { W. D. HUNT, President, National Efficiency League;' REV. R. S, GRAY, President, New Zealand Alliance. ' 8.-The Chairman of the Council replied lis follows:— (Copy of Letter from Dr. Giesen.) . 200 Willis Street, Wellington. Gentlemen — In reply to your letter of April sth, 1919, I have U) state that the seven questions raised in that letter are substantially correct. Yours faithfully, (Signed) E. W. GIESEN, Chairman of Council, ' B.M.A. W. D. Hunt, Esq., Rev. R. S. Gray. This in why the votes of the Medical Association have not been made available for the information of the people of Now Zealand in connection with Tomorrow's Poll.