AN UNANSWERED RIDDLE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLV, Issue 65, 17 March 1911, Page 7

AN UNANSWERED RIDDLE.

DRINK BILL NOT ; SATISFACTORY PROOF.

[press association.]

SYDNEY, March 16. The Daily Telegraph says that once more the unanswered riddle why the consumption of drink increases where prohibition was gaining ground was raised by the New Zealand drink bill. After , dealing with several possible explanations the paper said that after all these drink bills were inevitably unsatisfactory. What they show is. not what the community drinks, but only how much is drunk by drinkers whom they cannot dissociate from the rest., The statistics would be really informing if they recorded the number of tipplers year by year, and thus answer the vital_ question whether abstainers Avere increasing or decreasing.