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INCREASED VODKA SALES A STRANGE POLICY (Elee. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Times Cables.) (Received Dec. 13, 10 a.m.) RICA, Dec. 12. The Times' Riga correspondent states that the Soviet Parliament has approved a Budget aiming at an increase of .1:20,006,000 to £30.000,0G0 in the revenue from vodka, despite the objection by some members that this is incompatible with the professed desire to ret, 1 ce drunkenness. The Finance Commissar, M. Rruikhanoff, dedaieg that the additional money is essential, because the arm-. estimates are increased bv £95,0C0,000.'
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16826, 13 December 1928, Page 7
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