THE PROHIBITION POLL.
From every quarter comes the refreshing' assurance that the Merchant Service is daily having returned to it the si lips commandeered by the Imperial Government for war service. New Zealanders will not.soon forget the war-time scarcity of shipping, nor will they soon forget that while meat and butter were in cold storage at this end, and while building material, farming implements, essential drugs, etc., were held up at the other end, the ‘‘One Big Monopoly" apparently knew how to pull the shipping strings. During the first four mouths of 1918 a total of 472,495 gallons of spirits was carried to N.Z. —vessel after vessel earned liquor as its chief cargo. This country cannot at any time afford to have overseas shipping space monopolised by liquor to I lie exclusion of commerce The very existence of a wave-washed Dominion such as ours depends on untrammelled shipping. Industry must be released from the tentacle* of the liquor Octopus. On Thursday, April 10th, strike out the top line I"
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1955, 22 March 1919, Page 3
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169THE PROHIBITION POLL. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1955, 22 March 1919, Page 3
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