EDUCATION.
The Most Costly School in the World. 1 here is a school where the fees are not paid in coin alone; a school where payment is made in human lives. It is the school for drunkards. It is the bar-rooms of N.Z. where the young men learn to become drunkards. The mothers and fathers, the wive s and sweethearts pay the fees in tears and anguish.
In the year 1921, according to the Police deports, the number of persons not previously convicted of drunkenness, but convicted during that year was 5,894. What has that -meant in the homes concerned? Can you express it in coin? Prohibition removes the means of temptation. As Admiral Sims has said of the U.S.A. “We have shut up the schools for drunkards. We have saved the rising generation from the drink.” Prohibition is just common-sense—-just exactly that—removing the danger, abolishing the cause. New Zealanders can shut up the schools for drunkards at the next poll by voting Prohibition.—N.Z. Alliance Publicitv, (60).
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 July 1922, Page 2
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167EDUCATION. Hokitika Guardian, 22 July 1922, Page 2
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