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Timaru Herald, Volume CVII, Issue 16612, 22 August 1918, Page 5

about the Revenue ? How is tie £1,000.000 at present received .trough the Traffic to be made up and where axe we to get> the £300,000_ aninial payment involvcdin theiM.oOO,®0 -to be paid to immediate §ohibition? The answer is simple — .■f51,757,085 was the amount of- Inst gear's J)riuk Bill. . Two-thirds of <sHm 'if diverted into legitimate trade (jjiannels, "drapery, boots; furnishings. »tc., would produce on an average of, 30 per cent, customs duty, 3635,000. 'the siving'-in the annual cost of Police, Giiarita'ole -Aid, Old As*© Pensions, Mental Hospitals, etc., isv-on-' a low . estimate, £650,000 to £700,000. The ; oss § therefore made ud without taking Sto account the other third of the wink Bill or the indirect cost, of the trade in.loss of efficiency, and of life, c^te., which is at lonst equal to the ; ciii-ect-cost of £4,757,080. > • 11 Messrs Dalgcty and Co'. Ltd., h^Te Business"tor the A.M.P. Society,-- premier life assurance effico for Australasia. Their Mr Crowley, who was years repesentatiye for the ordinary department of the A.M.P, this district, v.'ill be always available to. expert adv.ee to those contemplating insurance. Quotations w i![ "given for adults and , siiJ'drpjv of n |( afies. -Parsons wishing to ' take War i#aii : * policies will receive expert idrice as to the mode of. procedure, au< j pjompt attention will be given to all cfjmmiinicatioiis on thefc® matters. A business card relative to the new agency will be found on page six cf is issue—