THE PROHIBITION POLL.
Many electors have been somewhat pu.:zled by the fact that it is proposed to pay compensation to the liquor trade when Prohibition is carried at the forthcoming poll. It is necessary to explain that under the old statute National Prohibition carried with it a time for compensation to the trade of four and a-half year*'. After vtery careful examination of the whole question, the National Efficiency League (a body of specially selected and disinterested busir.es* men set up by the Government to ascertain what measures should be taken to ensure greater efficiency), reported that it would be in the nation:!! interest .to give money compensation, rather than time compensation, and secure immediPte Prohibition. Every patriotic New Zealander should vote to secure this great reform. Strike out the top line on Thursray next.—A'dvfc
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Taihape Daily Times, 5 April 1919, Page 4
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135THE PROHIBITION POLL. Taihape Daily Times, 5 April 1919, Page 4
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