REV. JOHN DAWSON AND WHISKY IMPORTATIONS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 248, 8 July 1918, Page 6

REV. JOHN DAWSON AND WHISKY IMPORTATIONS

Sir.-riic Rev. John Dawsm, in ;, s |.,( e . ment which yon were good enough to publish, stated Hint during the five months of this year sixty vewls broiHit liquor shipments, the lal.il a« ( ;re K ii( ( »''nf which was some 600.000 jjiilluns. Tlion he wye this: "What I want to point out. is that all. I hia liquor takes tip valuable shipping space, etc" To tho ihinkinuerson tho Rev. .John Saweon'e state*.

[ ment, as secretary of the .New Zealand Alliance, does not amount to much. He says sixty vessels brought liquor 'shipments. 'Ihese sixty vessels averaged from 5000 to 12,000 tons each. But put their average tonnage at GOOO tons, which is a D very low estimate; and we have the total „ tonnage of the vessels that brought this nquor amounting to MfI.OOD tons o , N| ?! V, , lhere al '° mm gallons "f liquor ot all kimls imported by tlie.-o .-.liips. As c six gallons of liquor go' to make a cubic s fcot, and there are 10 cubic feet to th« . ton, the total.tonnage ownpie.l would be .. 2500. But let us double this, be- '_ cause some of the liquor would'come in ,i cases, and some in biurets, and pay Ihrpe 5 galions to the cubic font, thus giving MOO y tons, or 1000 lons ;i month. Tims it ape pears that Mr. Dawson's own figures that the valuable shipping space occupied by ' 0 liquor of all kinds was less than onei,' seventieth of liiu whole shipping space (. available. * Sir, Ido not know much about motorcars, but I am ready to say this, that the tonnage space occupied by motor-cars during tho fivo months under review was more (ban double the spaco occupied by liquor of all kinds. But it is tho Roy. John Dawsnn's profo'i.iul sympathy for tbo liquor business, and his eagerness to i- advertise, it, that rorc« him to rush into P print to (lirect'altenlion to that business >■ on which, for him, so much depends.—l e am, etc., 1 MERCHANT.