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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 31, 31 October 1907, Page 8

Our attention (says --.the "Otago D.iily Times") has been directed to what would be a decided anomaly' should the Government : move in tho direction of romoving the duty from wheat and flour. At'Bd. tho 41b. loaf bread' costs tho consumer-2d. per lb.; tlio ■ Customs'duty'6n : biscuits is.2d. per llilj while the present duty on flour works out at barely Jd. per lb. " ' ;

- Tho barmaid is in trouble again. At the meeting of the Prohibition League in Christchurch on-Friday, Mr. T. E. Taylor made icferenco to a recent licensing ease, and suggested that the oyidence given at tho enquiry might bo ■ used in support of ia niovcui mi'c against 'the employment of barmaids. 'In America," ho said, ."where I .believe .there /s not a barmaid from San Francisco to New York, there is just, exactly half tho, liquor consumed per, head of. tho population that is consumed nor head in Great Britain. Whether the whole of the 'difference is duo to tho fact that no barmaids are employed in America, no one can say, but I have no doubt that a', largo amount of drinking in this country is done directly under the stimulus the employment of a barmaid gives." He' expressed the opinion (adds tlio "Press") that thousands of peoplo would support tlio abolition of. barmaids, who probably would not support No-license or prohibition. ; .