WHISKY DEMAND FALLING

Hawera Star, Volume LII, 5 September 1932, Page 2

WHISKY DEMAND FALLING

DEPRESSION IN .SCOTLAND. TILLAGES ON THE: DOLE. LONDON, Aug. 24. When the distillery year begins in Scotland in October it is expected that only a few of the present fifteen distilleries will reopen, compared with 100 distilleries in normal times. The managers are anxiously awaiting The result of the American Presidential election. They hope America will go i more or less “wet,” and thus revive the whisky industry, which is in a parlous condition. In some villages that depend entirely on the trade the whole of the population is receiving the dole.A duty seven times the value of the product is the main obstacle. A writer in the ‘Evening Standard’ who was touring the distillery area saw warehoused whisky in two towns alone, representing £7,500,000 in duty, awaiting sale, which is bound, to be slow, unless the agitation to reduce the duty is successful.