ILLICIT WHISKY STILLS
INCREASING IN BRITAIN MANY PLANTS ARE SEIZED BIG PROFITS REVEALED \ .l (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright)’ Received. Dee. 18, 6.17 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 17. Owing to high prices for spirits (whisky 12s 6d a bottle), the production of illicit still spirit has been increasing in industrial centres. Customs and excise men, rounding up culprits this year, seized eleven plant! in England and Wales, ten in Scotland, and 89 in Ulster. Distilleries are difficult to discover. The usual practic< is to confine thc sale of the product U within a restricted community. Investigations show that some small stills have been making a profit of £lOO per month. The illicit, home-brewed whisky is a vicious, fiery drink, and usually only a few days old when sold. It is often 65 per cent. over-p>oof compared with the fixed strength of 30 of under-proof whisky retailed legal) througnout Britain.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 299, 19 December 1933, Page 7
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