BUSINESS NOTICES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2460, 29 July 1922, Page 3

BUSINESS NOTICES.

Air J. P. Allerby notifies that lie intends to reduce the price of milk by one penny per quart as from August Ist.

The N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd will bald an unreserved sale of dairy stock at the Himatangi yards, on behalf of Air H. G. Hammond, who is giving up dairying, on Tuesday next at 1 p.m. sharp. Light luncheon provided. By advertisement elsewhere in this issue Air K. Easton notifies that he has disposed of his retail milk business to Alessrs W. H. Doney and Co. The new firm in addition to continuing (he milk round, carried on by Mr Easton, have opened a dairy in Perreau’s Buildings, where, cream, Whnknranga butter and cheese, and dairy produce will he retailed.

ARK THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC THIS ? According to Police Reports for 1921, there were over 8,800 convictions for drunkenness in New Zealand. Ask the liquor traffic what made these cases ‘drunks’ and where did they got it? Ask the liquor traffic if the arrests and convictions represent all the drunkenness in New Zealand? Ask the liquor traffic if it is true that every habitual drunkard and every casual drunkard began as a moderate? Ask the liquor traffic if intoxicating drink is sold anywhere in New Zealand without drunkenness being there too? Ask the liquor traffic if a prohibition order taken out by a man himself’or on a relative’s request is ever broken? Ask the liquor traffic if a prohibition order has a chance of being obeyed whilst an organised trade is pushing temptation before a man at every opportunity? Ask the liquor traffic who pays when a husband and father spends most or all of his money on drink?

In the U.S.A. under prohibition drunkenness has been reduced 6ft per cent. Ask yourself if it is not true that Prohibition is just Com-mon-sense?—N.Z. Alliance Publicity, (61).