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Otaki Mail, 20 November 1922, Page 3

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Dalgety and Company, Ltd.. report that at their stock sale* at Otaki o= Thursday last a good yarding of both sheep and cattle came forward, and practically a total clearance was effected at satisfactory prices. Quotations: Fat wethers, 30sj ewes and lambs, 435: wooiiy m.s. hoggets, 25s 4d; forward ballocks, £4 7s t>d; store cows, 2Ps to £2; pott»r hulls, 20s to 37s 3d; wc-aner tfatjtot , .-. . ■ H :u..

SWEDEN REFUSES PROHIBITION.

t IMMENSE NEGATIVE VOTE BY >. i BOTH SEXES, i I A Stockholm wire to the United Press Association, London, on August " 30th, 1922, proved conclusively that r j the people of Sweden will have none of 1 I prohibition. Popular feeling ran high, ! i and the number of people who voted • ji'ar exceeded that at any general election. The voting was overwhelmingly jfor continuance. In Stockholm of the women, 71, 214 voted against Prohibition and 14,372 for. while the voting j among the men was 65.664 against and j 7G62 for prohibition. The Swedish • Prime Minister, interviewed on the situation, said that tho results of the plebiscite proved beyond doubt that the attempt to force the Swedish people I into prohibition had failed. The real I work for temperance must now be based on other grounds than prohibition, arid it was desirable that those who

I during this plebiscite had worked hardI est for the realisation of the idea of prohibition should now devote themselves to less extreme, but in the long run more effective, work of enlightenment. The Swedish are a sane, hardheaded people: follow this excellent example, and Vote Continuance. 74.