THE PROHIBITION POLL.
The greatest curse of the small trader is the credit system. People get on the books and stay there. The “Trade” knows a trick worth two of that. If you Want six pen’orth.of stagger-juice its’s cash on the nail, and if you want just another glass of trip-me-quick its cash on the nail again. That is where the honest trader falls down in his contest with the dope-dis-penser. That chap always “gets his blow in fust!” If we were a small trader our first move would he to put Booze out. He is right in the track of legitimate business. In Master! on the traders always remark to investigators: “The first thing we noticed about no-license was that people paid their accounts quick on time.” That is never a boast in the licensed districts! Never! Strike out (he top line on Thursday, April 10th.*
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1956, 25 March 1919, Page 3
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147THE PROHIBITION POLL. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1956, 25 March 1919, Page 3
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