PROHIBITION

Hokitika Guardian, 10 July 1928, Page 4

PROHIBITION

ISSUE IN NEW SOUTH AVAL’

SYDNEY, Juno 28

One of Sydney’s loading newspapers has published a scries of articles with the object of presenting to the general public some of the issues at the forthcoming referendum on the question of Prohibition, and has been fair enough to make its open columns a. forum tike far opponents and supporters of liquor reform. The tone of some let'ers svggcjts that intemperance of views will not aid the cause of Prohibition. Tiie plain fact of the matter. Poking at the issue quite impartially, is that the public of New South Wales generally has yet to lie convinced about Prohibition, especially os there is a strong dfiiihi. whether it coil Id actually he enforced, and the still more certain knowledge that the hug? harden of (■onipensation will Jmv-? to coir? cut of ihe taxpayers’ pockets. The “R.-ys” are fighting a cause forod -.mod to failure. Talk of Prohibition niid danin tlio financial oonso-q-VMves. as apnears to be the attitude •of seo'c who ere writing to the papers, is all rorv weP. But it is the unat',.,.])r,i voter who listens and snvs nothin',r, whose voice will count at the refercndiim, as it so often counts at elections.