LESS RUM DRINKING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18334, 26 February 1923, Page 8

LESS RUM DRINKING.

HUGE STOCKS IN LONDON.

_V There is enough rum stored at -the West India Dock to make everybody in London drunk.?.-;;. This r B tatemen£ was made on the authority of ; Sir Joseph Broodbank, who, lectured on the Port of London at : the City of London College recently. ,'. . , ,- 6 ,

Sir Joseph put the amount at -two to three million gallons, and said *t was 30 to 40 over proof. ,« * , i-P 16 . accumulation of this great quantity of liquor is said to c a direct consequence of unemployment ana a . con. J^? ent i.^ p m - fclle consumption %of i N:rt h ifi cu,arly sm in the Mr' °W s*"w W - hy ?i "* there," said Mr. w S. -Norm, of Portal Dingwall,' and Noma, wine, merchants/ ■« i g that the duty is TO extraordinarily high. Just of rum/wtSSig: SnSS?"v ■ - At that - tim * there wm « n ?. rm ,P UB ?"»«« going on. -■ - *°- ♦,™ : T.V tocks afc the -dbcks- represent two or three years' supply. There is St much being shipped at present The ac cumulation will gradually be worked off * but in pre-war times each year's suhnlv ! was exhausted during the actual vear? should say that there is double the orewar stock now at the docks. 'w ™ ; Y Much of it was bought at 'vuri'hiM,'prices, and the holders %!*fcSSjW make a^ heavy loss on it rJv« „tu spirits kept in wood «,t« JT 6 other improves witrawbutT^ atUreS . and there is a loss ofTpeTeit fc t hT **• of a year in evaporation"- m* * course