BRITAIN'S DRINK BILL.
STATEMENTS IN THE COMMONS. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received March 14th, 8.5 p.m.)LONDON, March 13. In the House of Commons the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr Bonar Law) stated that the consumption of alcohol in 1917 declined by 38 per cent, as compared with 1916, but the expenditure thereon was 26 per cent, higher than in 1914. The outlay on alcoholic liquors was £164,000,000, as compared with £259,000,000 last year.Six hundred thousand tons of barley and 65,000 tons of sugar were used for brewing in 1917. This amount of barley would give 268,000,000 quartern loaves.
Mr J. R. Clynes (Under-Secretary to the Ministry of Food Control) announced that there would be further restrictions on imports of beer-making materials, but the working-men had made big sacrifices, and the Government was not going to ask them to make further sacrifices at prosent.
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16161, 15 March 1918, Page 6
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147BRITAIN'S DRINK BILL. Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16161, 15 March 1918, Page 6
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