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Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 151034, 28 July 1919, Page 3

The records of liquor de.alt with in the Wai hi No-license district show a steady, drop in the quantity consumed, but no material change in the individual .consumption, the reduction in quantity being accounted for by the decreased population. On the other hand, there has been a steady increase in the consumption of wine during the jpast tnree or four years. In addition to the items totalling £35,770 shown oil the last. Estimates as having been expended under the votes for the San Francisco and Vancouver mail services, the Postal Department states that the expenditure 'during the same ' period for services on the American Continent and the- Atlantic Ocean was £59000. Parcels were sent to Britain by the direct steamers on a poundage basis, the cost totalling £11,----928, 'which was paid to the following steamship owners or agents:—Shaw, Savill and Albion Co. £5020, New Zealand Shipping Co. £4265, N.Z. and African Steamship Co. £973, Union Steam Ship Co. £(iO4, Commonwealth and Dominion Line £603, Dalgety and Co., Ltd. £iOO.