BRITAIN’S DRINK BILL
LAST YEAR’S DECLINE. London, April 15. The United Kingdom Alliance reports that the nation’s drink bill for 1922 totalled £3-54,000,000. compared with £402,750,000 for 1921, working out at £l2 10s. per adult. The decline was attributable to unemployment, reduced wages, and the high price of drinks. During January and February of this year, states the report, 228,685 proof gallons of spirits were sent to the West Indies for tho purpose of smuggling into the United States. For the same two months in 1922 only 80 000 proof gallons went to the West Indies.—A/us.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 179, 17 April 1923, Page 7
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98BRITAIN’S DRINK BILL Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 179, 17 April 1923, Page 7
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