COST OF PROHIBITION.
OFFICIALS KEPT BUSY. WASHINGTON, February 23. Tlie Treasury Department has announced that ' 15.4.-0,000 dollars were spent in the last fiscal year in the enforcement of national prohibition, and that 44 per cent of the work of the Federal district attorneys was consumed in tlie preparation of the trials of offenders. Congress appropriated only 9,500 dollars for the enforcement of prohibition, but the Department of Justice spent one-third of its own appropriation for the same purpose. -lA. and N.Z.I
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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 47, 24 February 1923, Page 7
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81COST OF PROHIBITION. Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 47, 24 February 1923, Page 7
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