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According to Police Reports for 1921. there were over 8.800 convictions for drunkenness in New Zealand. Ask the li<|iior traffic what made these case s ‘drunks’ and where did they got it? Ask the liquor traffic if the arrests and convictions represent all the drunkenness in New Zealand? Ask the liquor traffic if it is true that every habitual drunkard and every casual drunkard began as n moderate? Ask the liquor traffic if intoxicating drink is sold anywhere in New Zealand without drunkenness being there too? Ask the liquor traffic if a prohibition order taken out by a man himself or on a. relative’s request is ever broken? Ask the liquor traffic if a prohibition order lias a chance of being obeyed whilst an organised trade is pushing temptation before a man at every opportunity? Ask the liquor traffic who pays when a husband and father spends most or nil of his money on drink? In' the ILS.A. under prohibition, drunkenness has been reduced 00 per cent. Ask yourself if it is not true that Prohibition is just Commonsense?—N.Z. Alliance Publicity, (61).
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 July 1922, Page 1
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187ASK THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC THIS Hokitika Guardian, 29 July 1922, Page 1
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