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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17470, 2 June 1922, Page 11

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NINETEEN MILLIONS DOWN.

Iu a recent issue of the "Metropolitan Magazine/' Frank G. Shepherd, a well-known writer, gives the results of liia enquiries regarding the effect of the prohibition law. I'he figures he quotes were supplied by business and civic authorities, and they show that whereas before it was estimated there were 20 million drinkers, there are now only 1 million steady drinkers, with perhaps another 1J million ''casual" drinkers. The latter number is steadily decreasing because —in spite of all that is said about liquor being plentiful —Government analysts have issued warnings that 95 out of every 100 bottles of liquor offered by bootleggers. contain poisonous concoctions, and not genuine spirits. Mr Shepherd says that the "amouiit of liquor, both legal and illegal, withdrawn for beverage consumption works out at less than 3 gills per head. In 1917 the consumption was 20 gallons per head. The consumption by the Mr inkers' has been reduced from 140 quarts to 32 quarts per man." This ia good going in a little over two years. After visiting the U.S.A., Sir John Salmond has declared that "it seemed quite feasible that the younger generation might grow up without cultivating the taste for alcohol." Prohibition in •New Zealand is worth a trial.—N.Z. Alliance Publicity. . (45)

Some idea of the size of the pro. pelling machinery of a big steamer may be gathered from details of the work now beinz done on the Tredenham at the Cehtral wharf, Auckland. Each of the nine nuts which hold a propeller blade on to the bolts on the boss of the "shaft has to be cut from a 801b block of bronze. And bronze is half a crown a pound.