Four Reasons
By J.S. (Poverty Bay.)
NO. 1. Because of the numbers tha£ would be thrown out of employment who have no trades to fall; back on, and a big percentage cannot go to hard work, as there is a large number of them returned men who axe not physically fit for hand work. NO. Because the prohibition party did not play the game when the boys wet® fighting for our and their protection. They put the Government to a very big expense, which at the time the country could not afford. They tried to get a dirty point on to thq hoys while away. \ NO. 3. ; Because the accommodation cannot beT kept up to tho standard in New Zealand under Prohibition, and wild dnrj the prohibitionists * that stay at licensed houses do not drink, reajj the benefit. NO. 4. Because liquor could not be kept onrß of New Zealand as the coast of this country is too easy smuggled info, and to stop it would require a bigger force of polioe than the Government could afford to keep up, which would mean bad grog.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2500, 31 October 1922, Page 1 (Supplement)
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185Four Reasons Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2500, 31 October 1922, Page 1 (Supplement)
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