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Hokitika Guardian, 5 December 1927, Page 1

SENSATION IN TOWN. It docs not take long for a crowd to collect. A local doctor was walking alonp the busy street, and met an old acquaintance. Soon there was a crown round, ami no one seemed to know what was the matter. It appears that the doctor offeree liis friend his tobacco poneh. Tin friend made a cigarette and lit up. ‘‘ IVlint tobacco’s this?” he asked. “ Bears’! ” ‘•Bears’ Tobacco!” he exclaimed, “ Then I’m off to buy some,” am there and then emptied his own tobacco on to the street! That’s how the first passer-by stopped in surprize. and the crowd grew. Bears’ is a delicous smoke—Bd. pei oz.. also in handy packets, loz. !).. 2oz. Is. Cd.—Advt.

Tlio proposal in flip Licensing Hill tlmt prohibition should lie curried only by a no per cent majority is of great importance. It is a startling circumstance that under the existing law a majority of one vote would suffice to impose on the community a revolutionary change, affecting habits and customs of the people that have prevailed through all time. If any sueh change is to ho brought about, it should Ik? by a, majority of sufficient- volume to show that there was a strong body of public opinion behind it and thus to afford a certain promise of the permanence of the change. Even the proposal in the Bill to require a. margin of safety in the case of a majority for prohibition is not to the disadvantage of the prohibitionists. thuglit they may no admit it. They never polled better than when they had to submit to what they regarded as the handicap of the GO per cent provision of the law. A great many of those who then supported them realised that it would he \yrong to thrust prohibition on the community hv a hare majority. Ihe proof of this is provided in the fact that the vote for prohibition declined when the law was amended to admit of a simple majority bringing it into effort.—“Otago Daily Times.”

The late Mr Massey was the only statesman who sternly set his lace in New Zealand to effect economy in the spending departments of the State and the only thanks he got was political misrepresentation and repudiation at the hands of the people. No Government will take the responsibility lor drastic measures, because the masses believe retrenchment heralds a retrograde policy. I'nloiunatcly we are always faced with wasteful expenditure following the creation of public utilities created by political propaganda. “Dannevirke News.”

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