DRY AMERICA.
COST OF PROHIBITION. CONGRESS ASKED FOR VOTE By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright j Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. j WASHINGTON. September 25. j The Treasury Department announce? ! that 9,125.000 dollar? will be asked j from Congress for the enforcement of , prohibition. Commissioner Haynes states that j more money could be utilised in sup j pression of the marine smuggling of j liquor, since the new Tariff Bill has i made provision permitting a search of i all vessels twelve mile 1 - from the shore, J but the Administration’s policy of peon j oinv restrains the request for an in crease in the appropriation.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16848, 26 September 1922, Page 5
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103DRY AMERICA. Star (Christchurch), Issue 16848, 26 September 1922, Page 5
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