The Colony's Drink Bill.
The annual return showing the consumption of articles in common use was laid on the table jeste-day, and once more shows the steady advance in sobriety which New Zsaland is making year after year, in spite of the wild assertion that the rising generation are a drinking race, in 1878 the consumption of spirits per head was 473 gallons. It has steadily fallen, till last year it was 2 24. valued at £1 14s sd, as against £2 16s 3d. Wine has fallen from 0 - 70 gallon to 0 48. ale and beer (imported) from 1 75 gallons to 048 gallon. Tobacco also shows a faliin^-cff. in consumption from 7 "641 b per head in 1878 to 6 44, in 1894 ; but the consumption of cigars and cigarettes ba« increased from 0631 b per head in 1878 to 0-73 in 1894, Of tea, 6'OSlb per head 'Was consumed in 1878 to 5'671b in 1894 : and coffee, cocoa, and chicory have fallen from 1'431b per head in 187S to O*97ib in 1894. Sugar shows an increase of nearly 231 b per head in the same period— 64'61b in 1878 against 8721 bin 1894. While the cost of wine and beer of all kinds consumed last year was only 4s 9d per head, each member of the community consumed an average of 5s 7d worth of tei and sugar. We will evidently soon require an "AntU Lolly League. "
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 36, 10 August 1895, Page 3
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