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Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3357, 9 December 1919, Page 5

26_ V_IRGINIA——-Governor W: Davis ‘by the Com. of Prohibition. Prohibition since November 1,1916. Estimated Population, 1917——2,213,025. “Business interests which were the most insistent opponents‘ of Prohibition have been the chief beneficiaries of the change, in improved efficiency of labour, the reduction_of accidents, and the great increase in the volume of business. It is gratifying to note the graeefulness with which they now ad--mit that their fears have proved utterly groundless. The general benefit. of Prohibition upon the business interests, crjminal record. peace, and prosperity of the State is wifliout par» allel.’ ‘