What about the Revenue? How is (lie .61,000,000 at present received through tho Traffic to bo made up, and whuro are we to ge't tlio .£300,000 annual payment involved in tho JM ,500,000 to bo paid lo secure immediate Prohibition? The answer is 5imp1e—.£.'1,757,085 was iho amount of last year's Drink Bill. 'J'wnfhirds of this sum if diverted into Ic-xi-timate trade channels, drapery, bools. furnishings, etc., would produce ou un average of 20 per cent. Customs duly, ,£035,000. The savings in Iho annual cost of Police, Charitable Aid, Old Ago Pensions, Mental Hospital, etc., is, on a low estimate, ,£650,060 to .£700,000. The loss is therefore made up without taking into account tho other third of the Drink Hill or tho indirect cost of tho (rado in loss of efficiency, anil of life. etc.. which is at least err.i.d lo the direct coi-rt of .C1.757.055.-AiM. For Children's Hacking Cough, Woods' Great Peppermint Curo'
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 285, 21 August 1918, Page 9
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153Page 9 Advertisements Column 2 Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 285, 21 August 1918, Page 9
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