THE WHISKY TRADE
REDUCED CONSUMPTION. effect of exorbitant duty. (Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, July 15. (Received July 16, at 5.5 p.m.) The chairman of Distillers Company (Ltd.), speaking at the annual meeting, said that the present exorbitant rate of duty was gradually bleeding the whisky trade to death. The consumption last year was 12,000,000 gallons compared with 28,000,000 in 1916.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19844, 17 July 1926, Page 11
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64THE WHISKY TRADE Otago Daily Times, Issue 19844, 17 July 1926, Page 11
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