EFFICIENCY.
• To tlie Editor. •Sir I ,—l notice the Efficiency Board sits in the chief towns shortly to take evidence as to the advisability of closing picture theatres, stopping A. and P. shows and curtailing sport (of course, they mean abolishing horse-racing) until the end of the war, so that the country may economise and become efficient. Will the Commission also take evidence as to the desirability of closing liquor bars, which no doubt you will agree are the root of all "inefficiency"? Last year we spent 4'/» million pounds on alcoholic liquors, and that prince of politicians, the Minister of 'Finance, says in his financial statement that the beer duty this year to the end of February had increased by £38,000. Efficiency, ye gods! Penalise the farmer %d a pound butter-fat tax and spend 4% milions in booze! Surely the 'country is deficient in humor when it suggests cleaning up the leaves and leaving the upas tree standing! Why docs not the Efficiency Board go to the root of the trouble; or is the power of the Trade too much with a brewer as Minister of Finance ?—I am, etc., C. D, SOLE. Stratford, March 29.
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Taranaki Daily News, 31 March 1917, Page 7
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197EFFICIENCY. Taranaki Daily News, 31 March 1917, Page 7
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