THE GROWING DRINK BILL.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1738, 1 May 1913, Page 5

THE GROWING DRINK BILL.

A SUGGESTED KEMEDY. By TelearaDh-Prtfis Aiioolation-Oonrrittht Sydney, April 30. The "Sydney Morning Herald," commenting on tho drink bill, says: "Very few poople not directly benefiting from the trado can view the very laTgo increase in the expenditure on drink without regret. Tho lamentable fact remains that all tho labour put into the work of reform has not apparently affected either tho drinking habits of tho peoplo or tho steadily increasing revenue derived from tho salo of liquor, in which every person, including the most vigorous opponents of tho trade, shares." The paper advocates as tho best remedy for checking the grortli of drinking tho elimination of tho factor of private profit. Flannelette,is no more inflammable than other material, made from cotton oilmen, state tho leading manufacturers in n circular to M/P.'s against- a'Bill introduced into the House of Commons which provide? for penalties for se'ling flannelette without describing it as inflammable. The manufacturers contend that the fact that so many victims of burning fatalities were wearing flannelette is not a proof of its inflammability, but that it is popular and in general use. The legislation, tliev say, "will bring disaster to a very important trade."