LIQUOR IN AMERICA

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 12077, 17 October 1933, Page 2

LIQUOR IN AMERICA

ESTIMATES OF REVENUE

SOME PROBABLE TAXES

WASHINGTON, Sept, 19

A retal price of 6s a quart for whisky is the goal of Congres s taxation experts, who are now framing estimates Of revenue from liquor in anticipation of an absolute majority for the r.epeal of prohibition by the end of the year. The revenue objective from liquor if 700,000,000 dollars (£140,000,000 at par) annually, of which spirits are (Scheduled to provide 500,000,000 dollars and beer 200,000,000 dollars. This, revenue will automatically replace that provided for in the N.R.A. Act which created a dividend tax, added to the petrol tax, and levied a capital • stock and excess profits tax, to "boost” tile Treasury income until liquor should be restored as a revenue item. The Federal tax on whisky probably will be Is lOd to 2s 6d a quart. Medicinal lipuor is (Subject to a tax of 3s 8d a gallon, and all other liquor to 50s a gallon, the latter fax being wholly -punitive and representing the liability of illegal liquor.’ Congress leaders say they are determined to make retail prices of liquor, so low as to,, drive the bootlegger. out of business. 'Tile suggested price is nearly halt that charged in Canada under liquor control. This indicates the possibilities of a huge invasion of Canada by American bootleggers, with all the dramatic incidents that attend their, operations.

In referring to the death of the Rev. Percy T. Williams, of Paihjir. at Hie Synod meeting at Auckland, (the Bov. Canon E. H. Strong, warden of —t. Johns College, said be a missionary to t be core an<j had <3en o noble work in the Pacific Islands. Almost to the end of his life letters oi appreciation had come from the Ecu” of his former island days. > He'Was a courageous, honest man,- nn<f cue could never associate anything petty with his characted. “I wish to pay a tribute to a great and splendid Christian,” said Canon Strong, “and .1 move that this Synod, having heard with profound regret of the death of I eroj Temple Williams, priest, sometime missionary in Melanesia; warden of St-.-John’s College and chaplajh to the Forces, expresses its deen thankfulness to -Almighty God tor lus Ufe ministry, and its sympathy with Mrs Williams and the members of her family/’ Archbisfiop Avenll said that Mr. Williams was or amed in London two. years after him and became curate at St. Bartholomews, Smithfield. It wap there m 1800. that his Grace first met him. - chaplain to . the forces' Mr Wiliams had sliow u a keen interest in e welfare, of, thp men wo n Hieir confidence and- high osfcefcrn. A o o o sympathy was with the members , of the Smbd -standing m silence. •.