NO EXCITEMENT IN SPIRITS.

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3153, 3 August 1917, Page 4

NO EXCITEMENT IN SPIRITS.

The rise in tlie Customs duty on wins and spirits did not croato the excitement that such measures usually do. Perhaps local merchants have in mind their experience of not so long ago, when it was bruited abroad that a heavy tax was to be imposed,' anil to anticipate tins lliovo a general raid was made UP 0 1)on(ls, uVauy tlffiusands of paid.in duty. When the Buds 6 down the tax was found to ben "V light one—certainly not one which j" t fild clearing si" 111 stocks, Onthw . occasion the rise is onlj 1.. • n (from 17s. to 18s). winch b K was l6a ?^iritfwns T tmmtaMl d and activity on r »^ a riV \ v j n Wellington total returns fot , , on Wedreached. the sum »t ( 0, I> nesday, the day soared to presented, the total ) tliat tho £7472, which is i hi:>««*,_ aIK , t i, nt viso in duty , ,] t (-i ic increase , possibly » in^ ex Pf„f, it netually is. The would be Renter t Wednesday big amount Rented 'by the . was only iu .J k fht ere liberated from wine p"t of it waster, bond. A sub-tan , I c j„ alc tt e s. The duty on Cl P"\ Ss po r°lb. more duty ' former now V" ir h „rsdar, making in all tlw" P»? aiul the duty on cigarettes 12s. per Ij l>v Per 100ft—30s- 6d. f listened jov being experienced, in , ng of chastenen j ph|g )9 certain , "l e t oft"' this time. to %° taxation has upset all our p?io e,» Raid « gentleman interested m "Personal™! did not. think there would b» a'uv extra duty . put upon •" tl but. Tt is difficult to sav much iust vet as one has lmrdlv had timo tG go well into the matter."