BRITISH LIQUOR TRADE.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14406, 17 May 1917, Page 10

BRITISH LIQUOR TRADE.

LORD MILNER APPOINTED

CONTROLLER,

IMMEDIATE REDUCTION OF

LICENSES

J (Australian ami N.Z. Cabla Association)

\ London, May 15. ) Tie "Daily Express" states that ? cabinet TB^terday deckled to place the j liquor trade under Lord Milner's eon,trol. It has requested the brewers to Uppoint a committee to confer with. i Lord Milner. ; It is understood that the immediate intentions include a further reduction of licenses and a lower specific gravity of beer. The, question of. State pur- . chase will be referred to a Royal Com- ' mission.