CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOL IN BRITAIN
IMPORTS OF BEER-MAKING MATERIALS TO BE RESTRICTED. (Rec. March 14, 7.35 p.m.) London, March 13. In thb Houso of Commons the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Bonar Law, stated that tho consumption of alcohol in 1917 had declined 38 per cent, compared with that of 1916, but the expenditure thereon had been 26 per cent, higher. In 191-1 the outlay on alcoholic liquors was £161,000,000, compared with £259,000,000 last year. Six hundred thousand tons of barley and 65,000 tons of sugar wore used in brewing in 1917. Tho barley • would give 268,000,000 quartern loaves.
Mr. J. R. Clynes, Parliamentary Secretary to the Food Controller, announced that there would bo further restrictions in tho imports of beermaking materials, but the working men had made big sacrifices, and the Government was not going to ask them to make further sacrifices at present. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. '
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 151, 15 March 1918, Page 5
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148CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOL IN BRITAIN Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 151, 15 March 1918, Page 5
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