DRY CHRISTMAS.
U.S. BREWERS HARD HIT. •• i MAY LOSE £200,000,000. .VANCOUVER, Doc. 16. A message from Washington states that all hope of Congress coming to the aid of the liquor interests before the Constitutional Prohibition Amendment becomes effective on January has now vanished. Thousands of Jiquor dealers and distilleries in the bigger cities stare ruin in the face, for all had expected a wet spell covering Christmas, and several weeks afterwards, during which their immense stocks could bo disposed of. Estimates of their immediate losses run as high as £200,000,000. Kentucky distilleries had 40,000,000 gallons of whisky when they realisod the predicament in wbioh the adverse decisions of tho court left them, and a wild scramble for freight cars occurred to carry their liquor to ports for shipment to Europe, because the Revenue Board rulod that all liquor .intended fori; export; must be out of thojcountry a month from to-day.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1710, 29 December 1919, Page 5
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150DRY CHRISTMAS. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1710, 29 December 1919, Page 5
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