NEW ZEALAND DRINK BILL

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 632, 8 October 1909, Page 8

NEW ZEALAND DRINK BILL

|;-.:#%HQ$n s ??.- areas; :shqw ■ ;; ; i':- '; : JH.',y CONSUMPTION.: ■:-■ l--\-' .v :.'■:■■' ! : npt. reduced;.the- amount..of -drink xcmmnild on the No-License areas; the /Rev: J^'awSaa M T* I'SJ,' W ota thTdury .paid-on alcphoho)iquors, at every.CnstomhonS m-.New .Zealand;.for.; three year pared with- the . three, years': ■ :when':analy^ (; are''stated-by-the v 'Neff-Z«Jar,rt ;A1 hance to produce ,the \ 'Theincrease, of.'duty paid on" 'IWnora i»i ;head_ v^.Qamaru;fluhanrind°lSiriS areas of. Chtha,, Mataura;' Oaiuaru/ aid W cargill, .was only tenpence' per"•' headier enuS ; in total money'value to £IU2-''•"■" ■■• 'v'The.- increaseWn':■ duty in-,the rest''•■■of"tho : Dominion;.wav'howeyer, v,7 s . Sdi' per -head 'so .that if Otago has increased at thlLme ratio t would have increased n duty naid .£M27« instead of As :there is no ? reaf 0 S ; supposing any decrease of drinkine-in theDtnS .License f areas/the .whole' of'this' differed Inva^-credited ;to, the iour "The decrease M duty- paid ; "when •against'the; rate orae^ufi^i&^ax?of \^omiMa ? ;) B MIM. -Takinff thenar • 7 '-Tho:.whole:pf-this savins; mnsl .ha o»«J;*«J m,ota(7 oj during ; thn three years ! . 1907-8-9 This lslequnl ,to-a reduct on of their-drink hill kJ/ 'H y£l 15 -\Sd '«&' head instead «'« 15s. lOd. per head, for -the Dominion -in : 1907 • ™ ™ -.While .this, is .not "an ideal state of-thinm ■ the-temperance'workers; claim it as a E stride-m; advance, and say that it shows pjninl? .why the brewers, aid; spirit merchants oppose checked, and are strictly" accurate,", are sthe cpnclmhng'words of the Alliance statement-