NIPS OF WATER COST £630,000.
According to statements by Mr R. A. Armstrong, of the Moderate League, 7jOz proof whisky equals lOoz neat whisky as sold. That is to say one-third water is added. Making the fair assumption that two-thirds of the spirits imported are in bulk and broken down by this addition of water before being sold, uve find that in the year 1920, the liquor traffic stood to gather in the neat little net profit of £63O,(XX) by the simple process of adding water and then selling it at to much per nip. We can understand why the liquor traffic is. so frantically anxious that Prohibition should not lio carried. From this point of view it is much better to be allowed to increase their profits by selling water at a profit of £670,000 per annum.—Now Zealand Aliiance Publicity (55).
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18612, 21 July 1922, Page 7
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142NIPS OF WATER COST £630,000. Otago Daily Times, Issue 18612, 21 July 1922, Page 7
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