DRINK BILL.
AN INCREASE IN NEW SOIJTH WALES. ;,i LOCAL OPTION. DECREASES IN CONVICTIONS. (l)Y TELEGRAM —rRESS ASSOCIATION COFERIGHT.). (Reo. September Sydney,-September 7. • Canou Boyce's aimual review of, the drink traffic bill for Now South Wales for . 1907 totalled £5,200,744, which is equal to £3 lid. per head of tlio population,. an increase of £552,068, or ss. Gd. per .head, on tho preceding year. Canou Boyce. attributes tho inoreaso to prosperous times. Convictions for Sunday drunkenness numbered 781, as compared "with 2318 for 'the year before the Local-Optical. -Act -becamo, operative. Convictions for sly grog-selling and Sunday and after hours selling have' all decreased.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 296, 8 September 1908, Page 5
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104DRINK BILL. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 296, 8 September 1908, Page 5
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