Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Aroused by this and scores of similar editorials the Anti-Saloon League, vigilant, called attention to historical facts which prove that most despatches from New Zealand concerning the referendum, last week, were either poppycock in the first place, or were misinterpreted upon arrival...
...facts are: 1) New Zealand has never had national prohibition; 2) every three years since 1896 there has been a referendum in which voters have expressed preference for: A) free sale; or B) rationed sale as in Sweden; or C) total prohibition...
...referendum of last week free sale was carried by a majority, but since New Zealand always had had free sale,* the vote signified merely that voters are more wet-minded than they were nine years ago. Three years hence another referendum will be held and so ad infinitum...
...Zealand Parliamentary election, which was held last week simultaneously with the referendum, the support of Prime Minister Joseph Gordon Coates was cut from 53 seats to 28 in a house...
Scientists believe that three-eyed reptiles are at present extinct. The stagnodon, a little lizard found on small New Zealand islands appears to be three-eyed, but the middle eye is in reality only vestigial...