WHAT THE PEOPLE DRINK AND WHAT IT COSTS.
No le>=s than 7b*,620 gallons vi /spirits wvrc consumed by the people of New Zealand- last year, the duty oh same being at the rate Hi lfe per head, an. Increase of Is lOd per bead on Int. prtvious year. In .the same pericd the pcupic who are not teetotallers drank 153,-l-io gallons of v>inc, '271,594 gallons ol nlo and beer, while 7,ij82,i301b of tea were tihed. Ihe consumption of tobacco Was 2.-90,7771!j. and cigars, cigarettes, ■And eiiuft cost the smokers an averageof' 10s lid per head of the population for the year, "an increase of 7fd per head on the previous year. Ccffee, cocoa, and chicory was drunk to the extent of 664-,-3021b. and 113,337,8751b of sugar wero consumed. Tho figures relating to ale and beer given above do not refer to New SSealand-brrwed beer, 9^399,440 gallons of which wero consumed, or at thefate of 1-3.1 gallons per head of the population over fifteen years of age. On tlie same basis of calculation the duty ncr head was 3s 3^d.
Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, for roughs aud WlkU, USTir {lull, ll t&l~> Aayt,
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24, 28 July 1911, Page 3
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192WHAT THE PEOPLE DRINK AND WHAT IT COSTS. Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24, 28 July 1911, Page 3
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