THE NO-LICENSE EXPERIMENT IN INVERCARGILL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13273, 4 September 1906, Page 5

THE NO-LICENSE EXPERIMENT IN INVERCARGILL.

SOME INTERESTING FIGURES

[BY telegraph.— OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

<):-.:; * Dunedin, Monday. In view of the attention being paid throughout the colony, to the experiment of nolieenso in Invercargill, the following particulars relating to the traffic in beer will probably prove interesting. A return of excise duty shows that Invereargill brewera paid £88 lis HA in July, and £108 Ori Id in August, for duty .stamps. As the amount collected as excise on each gallon is 3d, it is evident that, the total quantity sold at the local breweries and depots amounted,, to over 7000 gallons during .Tidy, and to over 8600 gallons last month. It is understood the proprietors anticipate that they will double their output when the warm weather sets in. A little more local ale was disposed of during July and August this year than during the corresponding period of 1905, but whereas a. large quantity of beer brewed in Otago was despatched to Invereargill monthly before the advent of no-license, none, or very little is now sent. Returns of duties collected in Invereargill on imported alcoholic beverages show the following figures:— 1905, £2232 17s 8d; August, 1905, £2189 15s Od; total, £4422 12s Bd. July, 1906, £1594 5s lud ; August, 19%, £1880 lis Id total, £3474 16s lid.