INVASION OF CANADA

Evening Star, Issue 20317, 28 October 1929, Page 2

INVASION OF CANADA

EFFECT OH DRINK J3ILL BACK TO PRE-WAR TOTAL. MONTREAL, October 12. Boor and nine consumption in Canada, which fell during the Great War, and post-war years, duo largely to the wartime prohibition policy and its effects, has jumped back to its. pro-: war high total for the first time. TliL is shown by figures on the liquor business of Canada in 1928, which have been issued by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics at Ottawa. The American invasion of Canadian “ wet territory is one of the big factors in the recovery of the liquor trade. Canada’s liquor business is now more than .-€20,000,000 a year. The official figures of the bureau show that total sales for the year amounted to £21,538,877. This is a tremendous gain over the previous year, the total sales in 1927 being £14,544,3-12. The figures of the bureau show- that malt, liquors consumed in Canada in 1923 amounted to 58,625.073 gallons, which is greater than the peak year of 1914, when the consumption was 58,1.40,859 gallons. Imported wines in 1914 were consumed to the extent of 1,061,935 gallons, and this total was not exceeded until last year, when 1,171,192 gallons wore consumed. In addition, native wines were drunk in 192 S to the extent of 4,305,422 gallons. Consumption of spirits has not yet got back to the pro-war scale. In 1913 the record consumption of 8,555,170 gallons was recorded. This dropped off until in 1923 the consumption was 1,850,381 gallons. Since then a steady gain has been shown, and the 1928 total was 4,105,982 gallons.