NEW ZEALAND'S FIGHTING SOLDIER SPEAKS OUT.
WHAT GENERAL RUSSELL THINKS OF PROHIBITION. (Published by Arrangement.)' Major-General Sir Andrew Russell, K.C.8., K.C.M.G., G. 0.0., N.Z. Expeditionary Force, 5815-10, writing on November 24, 1919, said:— "I am of opinion that drink, as the word is commonly used, is one of the chief obstacles of reconstruction, and I have come to the conclusion that National Prohibition is necessary." "I shall vote for it on two specific grounds—on the material ground that drink entails much -human wastage and impaired human efficiency, and so interferes with production, the chtof need of the day; and on the moral ground that seeing the trouble and often misery caused to others as the result of drink, the least one can do is, for the sake of others, to make the personal sacrifice involved in prohibition."
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 December 1919, Page 5
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137NEW ZEALAND'S FIGHTING SOLDIER SPEAKS OUT. Taranaki Daily News, 15 December 1919, Page 5
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