Some interesiihg figures are published m the Year Book of the United States Brewers' Association for 1911. . From these figures it appears that the amount of liquor consumed by the population of. the nine.- prohibition States is. only £.35, gallons, per head. . In the fifteen local option States where many licensed areas still exisj - f. < the..ay.erago ; consumption is .25.23 galloiis per* head, or ..nearly six times as < great, as 411 the • local, option States, and more .than 18 times as much as m the prohibition States. As these are Trade figures, they are hardly likely to overstate the 'case for prohibition and local option. - • ■-'•■;■- -.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12883, 2 October 1912, Page 11
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