GROWING APPETITE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19529, 11 July 1925, Page 17

GROWING APPETITE.

A TWENTY-YEAR COMPARISON, How the consumption of various articles has grown in New Zealand is shown by a return presented to the legislative Council the other day. The following figures are given for 1004 Tobacco, 1,055,5631 b; cigarettes and cigars, £110,617 worth; wine 130,130 gallons; tea, 5,225,6681 b ; coffee, cocoa’, and chicory, 550,7201 b; sugar, 04,522,0801 b; ad valorem goods, £1,008,387 in value. In 1024 the figures were:—Tobacco, 2,621,1571 b; cigars, etc., £663,326 worth; wine, 104,023 gallons; tea, 10.823,0171 h; coffee etc 606,7091 b; sugar, 137,371,1361 b; ad valorem goods £3,062,186 in value. It is remarkable that in 1920 the consumption of coffee, cocoa, and chicory was 1,177,3431 b, and that 'ln'l9l7 it was only 235,3301 b. The consumption of spirits in New Zealand in 1904 totalled 617,135 gallons, 2.46 gallons per he %l of the male adult population, the duty being £517,724, or £l,los 4d per head. In 1924 the total was 641.236 gallons. 1.59 gallons per head, in which the duty was £1,121,619, or £2 15s 9d per head. In 1921 the quantify was 1,000,875 gallons and the duty £910,182. In 1001 there were consumed 7,786.480 gallons of New Zealand beer, or 13 gallons per head of the population over 15 years of age paring £97,331 in duty, 8s 3d per head, 'in 1924 the amount consumed was 13,511.531 gallons, 11.5 gallons per head, the duty £651,201, a cost of 13s Hid per head.'