DRINK STATISTICS.
WHSBE THEY PAZX*. (Br Telegraph—Pram Aseoclatloa—Copyright! SYDNEY. March 1«. The Daily Telegraph says that ope* more the unanswered riddle why tha consumption of strong drink increase* where prohibition says It is . gaining ground Is raised by the New Zealand drink bill. After , baling with several possible explanations, it says!—" After all, these drink bills are inevitably unsatisfactory. What they show Is not* what the community drinks, hut howl much is drunk by drinkers whom they; cannot dissociate from the resttlstics would be really informing if they! recorded the number of tipplers year by( year, and thus answered the vital qnes-j tlon whether abstainers are Increasing. , or decreasing.”
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Southland Times, Issue 16688, 17 March 1911, Page 5
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109DRINK STATISTICS. Southland Times, Issue 16688, 17 March 1911, Page 5
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