LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 August 1918, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

The Pneroa got out of Oleum at 1 o’clock this afternoon for Hokitika. She leaves for Okarito at midnight on I’ucs (lav. Apples! Apples! Apples! Just landed, 100 cases of cooking and dessert apples—Stunners, Rokewoods 'etc., 9s to 10s per 401 b. case. Paterson Michel and 0., Ltd. ’Phone No 2. A Euchre Tournament and Dance given bv the Red Cross Society to the Copper Trail will bo held in the Supreme flail on Tuesday night next. Four good prizes have been donated for the euchre. Admission Is Id.—Advt. The National Efficiency Hoard's proposal that compensation should he paid

the Trade lias puzzled quite a few folk. Item is a report that says that prohibition is essential for “ the efficiency of the State and the individual both during the war and afterwards.” Yet, it proposes to pay compensation to the Trade. Why? Those who ask this question forget that if prohibition was carried to-day, under the present Statute, it cannot take effect for four and a-lmlf years. The National Efficiency Board carefully weighed the evidence on both sides, and was so impressed with the value of immediate National Prohibition tliat- it reported that in the interests of N.Z. that it should take effect at once. Sign the Alliance Monster Petition asking Parliament to grant a poll on this question, so that the people may decide.*