GERMANY'S DRINK BILL
.» _ ONE HUNDRED a.\*D FORTY-FiVE MILLIONS. By Telegraph.- Press Association.— Copyright. (Received Marsh 29, 840 a.m.) BERLIN, 281 h March, j Germany's. drink bid is estimated at one hundred and fony-fh'j inililons sterling, being double the combined cost of tho army and navj, and five times that of education. Great Britain* diink bill for 1908 (the latest figures available) totalled £161,060,482, as compared with £167.016,200 in 1907. In 1908 the average expenditure per head was £3 12s 3|d, and per family of five persons £18 Is 6jjd, compared wjth £3 15s 3d per head and £18 18s 9d per family in 1907. ' Taking increased population "into account, the decieased expenditure was-i equal to £7,529,913. '
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 73, 29 March 1910, Page 7
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