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Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1868, 24 August 1918, Page 4

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uor Traffic £ ijH ; JUQUOR',REVENUE I IrßOffitß fc V BERRR-S:; tUIIIt/im; it Costs YouI The Million a Year Revenue received from drink is more than outweighed by the heavy burden of taxation, the reduced national efficiency and moral wreckage it causes. Money spent on drink is a direct loss —it is an expenditure for which no tangible assets remains. The same amount spent on public works would provide permanent assets and valuable adjuncts for developing the Dominion. There is only one true standard by which public expenditure can be judged—the value of the public service it provides. Viewed under eitherjWar or Peace conditions money spent in drink is unprofitable and unjustifiable—its ill effects far outweigh any revenue received from it. The Liquor Trade practically says: —"Give us £5,000,000 a year and we*ll give you £1,000,000 back to help pay your taxation!” It is for the people of N.Z. to say: —“No thank you! We refuse to pay you five millions a year, and thus we shall have less need for taxation!” It would be just as foolish to double the drink bill in order to double the revenue as it is to spend £5,000,000 to get £1,000,000 annual revenue. The Truth About the Revenue If but two-thirds of the money now spent on liquor were spent on imports bearing 20% duty, the customs revenue would profit by £635,000. This would still leave free for investment within the Dominion the remaining one-third of the present Drink Bill, while a probable annual saving of at least 1 . £750,000 would be effected in the proportionately reduced charges for Prisons, Hospitals, etc. The total amount of liquor revenue, plus the £225,008 required to provide interest and sinking fund on the proposed amount of compensation to “The Trade," can thus easily be made up from legitimate trade channels. -Drink is the Enemy of Efficiency Drive drink from the Dominion and you increase the efficiency of the people. This is the positive consideration which must be remembered. It means many millions more pounds to the credit of the National Exchequer, The impartial verdict of the National Efficiency Board is that "the people will be better able toproyide the necessary amount of taxation if the inefficiency at present created by the effects of alcohol is removed." Also that cost of compensation "would be recouped by increased National Efficiency." The National Efficiency Board found also "that the two chief factors in the continuance of the The Liquor Trade are public custom, and the financial interests involved.” The Board was satisfied farther "that the greatest efficiency would be attained both (or the nation and the individual by a stale of Complete Prohibition.* * The People Should Decide The ordinary Licensing poll having been denied to us we are urging Parliament to grant a poll this year to decide the • continuance or the abolition of the Liquor Traffic. Sign the Alliance Monster Petition To-day! [N.Z.A. Efficiency Series.—sa