STATE CONTROL
LIQUOR IN BRITISH COLUMBIA. £6 PER HEAD OF POPULATION. SALES ADVANCE ANNUALLY. Unitec! Press Assn, by El. Tel. Copyright (Australian Press Association.) VANCOUVER, Dec. 29. Official returns show that British Columbia, under the Government sale of liquor, spends £6 annually for every man, woman and child of the population of 600,000. Liquor sales have advanced about £200.000 annually to the present total of £3,600,000. The Government is making a profit of 20 per cent,, half of which is divided between hospitals and mothers’ pensions. The system works better than anything previously tried in Western Canada.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 10783, 2 January 1929, Page 5
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97STATE CONTROL Gisborne Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 10783, 2 January 1929, Page 5
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