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Taihape Daily Times, 24 August 1918, Page 5

The National Efficiency Board's proposal that compensation should be paid the Trade has puzzled quite a few folk. Here is a report that says that prohibition is essential for "the efficiency of the State and the individual both during the war and afterwards." Yet, it proposes to pay compensation to the Trade. Why? Those who ask this question forget that if prohibition ;Was. carried to-day, under the present Statute, it cannot take effect for four and a-half years. The National Efficiency Board ; carefuljiy weighed the evidence on both sides, and was so impressed Avith the value of immediate National .Prohibtion • that it reported that in the interests of New Zealand that it should 'take effect at once. Sign the Alliance Monster Petition asking Parliament to .grant a poll on this question, so that the people may decide —(Advt.)

Values that speak for themselves. Double bed white twill, sheetings 2/11, 3/3, 3/8, 3/9, 3/11 per yard.—The big value house. Collinson and Gifford, Ltd.