ASK THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC THIS?
According to police reports for 1931, there were over 8,800 convictions for
drunkenness in New Zealand. Ask the liquor traffic what' made these cases ‘drunks' and where did they get it? Ask the liquor traffic if the arrests and convictions represent all the drunkenness in New Zoaland? Ask tho liquor
traffic if it is true that every habitual drunkard and every casual drunkard began as a moderate? Ask tho 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 re-
quest 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 60 per cent. Ask yourself if it is not truo that Prohibition is just Common-sons*? | -N.Z. Alliance Publicity* (61).
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Shannon News, 28 July 1922, Page 2
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187ASK THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC THIS? Shannon News, 28 July 1922, Page 2
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