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Matamata Record, Volume III, Issue 126, 3 April 1919, Page 3

THE Earnest Inquirer called upon the Efficiency Leaguer for Information, and the following Colloquy ensued

Quostiou: Good morning, Mr Eflicicnoy Loaguor, I seo you luivo turned Prohibitionist, and want mo to pay £4,000,000 to tlio Lieonsod Hotoi Trado, and that to do so will ho tho Soundest Business Proposition I have over considered —is that so ? Answer: Glad to see you and answer your questions. Vos, that is what I say. Question : Well, about this Annual National Production Stunt ? As I got it, you say that Now Zealand produces £100,000,000 per annum, people pay £5,000,000 of this every your for liquor, and that tho balance goes l'or othor things. Answer : Yos, quito right. Question : You also say that of this £100,000,000 tho Government collars £15,600,000 each year to run the country and gets it by Customs and Exciso duties, Land and Income Tax, Pail ways, Postal Ser- 1 vices, and so on ? Quite correct. Quostiou : I supposo that I may put tho Customs and Exciso duties at about £4,000,000, and that tho Licensed Hotel businoss pays about £1,250,-000 of this? Answer : Well, I won’t quarrel about tho figures—thoy are near enough. Question: Thou this particular £5,000000 pays about 12 timos as much as “ ali othor imports ” in Customs and Excise Dutios ? Answer: I supposo so. Question: Do you mean to say that if Prohibition woro carried that 55 per cent, of our old-ago pensioners would die, that 55 por cont. of our gaolors and policomen would bo out of work, and that 55 per cont. of our hospital and asylum pationts would bo curod or dio on tho day Prohibition comes into force ? (Surely you don’t believe that? Answer: Bctwoon you and mo, I don’t; but it looks well in tho Pro- | spectus. My partuors, tho Prohibitionists, like this sort of talk. Of course it’s nonsonso, but it looks well in print. Question: Then bang goes another £BIO,OOO a year saving. Woll, is there any othor way in which tho £1,500,000 you propose flinging away overy year can bo mado up ? Answor: Oh, yos. Now I can fix you up oasily. There is Efficiency—don’t overlook Efficiency. Prohibition will increase Efficiency. And you will got £780,000 a year at loast out of Efficiency. Question: What do you mean by officioncy ? Answor: Oh! Mon and women will work harder, you know—produco more, do more work in a given time. Knock off thoir beer and thoy’ll do it all right. For instanco, 5 por cont. increased Efficiency moans that I got 19 mon to do tho samo work that I have to pay 20 mon to do now. Question: You, tlion, savoono man’s wages ? Answer: Oh, no! don’t say that. Of courso I will soo that tho mon won’t suffor. Oh dear, no! Thoy must trust mo. They know lam a generous man.

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