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Levin Daily Chronicle, 24 August 1918, Page 4

•What the liquor Traffic CostsJ^^jf Face tli s f acts! | The pillion aY nr Revenue received from drink is more (j than outweighed by ih.i heavy birden of taxation, there- J duced natio: al < ffici; iicy and moral wreck gc'it causes. Money spen! on t!iii.k is less The Liquor Track* practically says: j —it is an expenditure 'o; _wM Ji n-j - "Give us £5.0 0 CO year and tangible assets temainr. Jhe tarr.c we'll give you £i,0j0,000 back to amount »pent on public wo. ks would li lp pay your laxa'iot! * I provide permanent assets and valuable . . ■ ' adjunct#for developing llie Dominion. «is r r the people of W.Z. lo say: j There i. only one true standard by ~" N ° ~ "Ir . re '"" ! '3 which public expenditure can be fi J y ° U "t! °S| 3 '' ir j : judged—.he value ol (he public ser- h ";.. W f.. sl,a " h: ' V£ les > nced for I vice it providei". Viewed u-rW 3a ° n j . either, War or Peace conditions mo. < y It would be just m f..oiis' t to double » spent in drink is unprofitnble and un- the drink bill in or !u to clouMe ihf justifiable—is ill effects fa'outweigh rcve it it :< tn s ; ,end £5.0JJ,030 any revenue received from it. to get £ 1,003,003 a':nuai revenue. The Troth About the Revenue j If but two-thirds of the money now spent on liquor were spent 1 on imports bearing 20% duly, the custom? revenue would profit [ by £635,000. Tins wcu'd sttll lei.ve free for investment | within the Dominion the remaining cne-third of the present I Drink Bill, while a probable unnual saving of ;;t le.:£t -£750,000 I would b" rffecled in the proportionately reduced charges for Prisons, Hosptt Is, etc. The total amount of liquor revenue, plus the £.225,008 rcrjujt'ed to pr. vide interest and sinking fund on the proposed amour.t of compensation to "The Trade," 3 thus easily be made up from legitimate trade channels. Drink is the Enemy of Efficiency j Drive drink from the Dominion and you increase the efficiency of the peopL-. T.iis is the positive o:.s!.l ration which must be remembered. It means many millions more pounds to the credit of the National Exchequer. The impartial verdi.-1 of t'ie N ilional The National Efficiency Board found Efficiency Beard is that "the people also "t:ithe iv; > cHi.-f factors in the will be better able to provide the ne-cs. continuance <j. f lie The Liquor Trade sary amount of lax.vion if the in ffi i- are puh'i: ,-a s m, md the financial e.ncy at present created by the iffetts interes . ir.v .'vi-.1." The Board was of alcohol is removed." A's~> that sisS d further "that the greatest cost of compensation "would be re- ifii icncv v/ uM 1 e -'tained both for . couped by increased National Effici- the nation a:.d lie i"dtvii'unl by a I ency. ' state of Complete Prohibition* The People Should Decide The ordinary Licensing poll hr. i r- ' een denied to us we are urgic g Parli .mcnt to grant a j-> »!i ihis jear to decide the > continuance or the abolition of the Liquor Traffic. Sign the Alliance Monster Petition To-day! * jN.z.A. Efficiency Series,—sa - ■*: . j

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