WHAT OF NEW ZEALAND.
A COMPARISON WITH U.S.A. In New Zealand we have not the low saloon system. We have not a tithe of thejiquor evils that America bad Tjhe Trade here is, on the whole, decently conducted by decent men; our people compare more than fevourably with any in the world for sobriety. Mr Massey said in the House the other day that “it was a fact that New Zealand was a temperate country—probably the most temperate "in the wbrdd, outside France.” Some reforms are necessary, of course—and they are coming. They must come, just, as surely as the steady decline (in drunkenness during the past ten'years has come.
Prohibition in New Zealand would be a disaster, just as it was in America. It would create a host of lawevaders. It would bring drugs and dope and crime. It would drive the liquor trade underground. It would attract criminals and wasters to this country,, for there would be ample opportunities for making fortunes put of sly->grbg. Let us think well and long before we risk this “experiment.” A licensed trade out in the open can be watched, taxed, regulated, and controlled ; a poison booze traffic underground would menace the whole wellbeing of our nation. Vote Restoration and National Continuance.*
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4493, 17 November 1922, Page 3
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210WHAT OF NEW ZEALAND. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4493, 17 November 1922, Page 3
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