Prohibition Means Ruin.
An advertisement in this issue calls attention to the fact that Prohibition means ruin. If on Thursday next, New Zealand were io adopt Prohibition, it would .come into force on Ist July, 1923. Mr Massey has said Parliament would have ;,> be called together to consider ths position, relating to the dislocation of revenue. That means fresh taxation, to yield at least £2,500.001). will have to ho put on the public ,an<l it will require to be a direct tax to get the money in quickly. Prohibition, according to the experience of other countries, carries many evils in its train. Doubtless the least of these is the taxation, but the heavy tax will be the first to he realised. Then will come unemployment, depreciation, of values, industrial disaster, and general dislocation of trade. ()n Thursday next the electors have the opportunity of averting the disaster and evil of Prt.-h'hition by Striking out the '1 wo bottom lines
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 December 1922, Page 2
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159Prohibition Means Ruin. Hokitika Guardian, 1 December 1922, Page 2
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