STATE LIQUOR TRADE
COLUMBIA’S EXPERIENCE INCREASED CONSUMPTION (Elec. Tel, Copyright—Uniled Pm« Assn.i (United Service.) (Received Dec. 31, 11 n.m.) VANCOUVER, Dec. 29. Official returns show that British Columbia, under the Government sale of liquor, spends £0 annually for every man, woman and child, of the population of (>()(),(100. Liquor sales have advanced about £200,000 annually to the present total of £3.000,000. 'fhe Government is making a profit of 20 per cent., half of which is divided between hospitals and • mothers’ pensions. The system works better than anything previously . tried in Western Canada.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16839, 31 December 1928, Page 7
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92STATE LIQUOR TRADE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16839, 31 December 1928, Page 7
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