A STARTLING STATEMENT.
EXCESSIVE DRINKING,
LONDON, Tuesday
A. deputation representing leading shipbuilders of the United Kingdom ur-' god the closing of public houses and clubs in areas where munitions of war are. manufactured. They asserted that the average time worked in most yards, despite the day and night work for seven days, was below normal before war. Eighty per cent of tho loss was due to drink. In one instance a battleship requiring immediate repairs was delayed for a whole day because the rivetters were drinking.
Mr Lloyd George said his own information was equally startling. "The greatest of these deadly foes," he said, "is drink. Excessive drinking is seriously interfering with the output of munitions, which must be enormously increased to enable us to win."
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 14247, 31 March 1915, Page 5
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126A STARTLING STATEMENT. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 14247, 31 March 1915, Page 5
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