LIQUOR IN ONTARIO.
TRADE WITH! AMERICANS.
TAX REDUCTIONS, TO FOLLOW.
A. and N.Z. TORONTO, July 24. The taxes of Canadian farmers will be considerably reduced owing to tho practice of American tourists in crossing the border to procure beer, wines and other liquor. It is announced that Ontario will have a balanced Budget for the first time in 20 years. The tax reductions are expected to amount to £400,000. Under prohibition the province of Ontario appeared to have been over-run by illicit liquor bootleggers and " blind pigs." The number of arrests in Ontario when the province was formerly " dry " was higher than the arrests in the neigh» bouring " wet " province of Quebec. Now that Ontario is " wet " again the legal sales of liquor are expeclod to amount to £6,000,000 a year, compared with about £7,000,000 under the former illicit bootlegging system,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19698, 26 July 1927, Page 9
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141LIQUOR IN ONTARIO. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19698, 26 July 1927, Page 9
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