THE PROHIBITION POLL.
Xew Zealand must stand firm against anything that will tend towards mlueing employment or towards closing up avenues of labour. Critical analysis of the liquor traffic becomes the imperative duty of every man and woman. The whole question narrows .down to one definite issue: £3,000.000 is now wasted annually on liquor. When spent otherwise, will it provide more employment than now. or less? In answering /his imprlant (pieslion, electors need not be guided hy either the prohibitionists or the liquor folk. The Official Year Book shows that (ho liquor business as an employer of labour is nowhere. The fifty-five brewerfes in N.Z, employ directly only 735 hands. Eighty-three clothing factories provide employment for 3,547 hands! Putting out fifty-five breweries on April 10 means more factories. That's what this Dominion wants —Total Prohibition on Thursday, April 10, is the best way to get them.?'
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1957, 27 March 1919, Page 3
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146THE PROHIBITION POLL. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1957, 27 March 1919, Page 3
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