A BUY CHRISTMAS
U.S. BREWERS HARD HIT. VANCOUVER, December 16. A message from Washington states that all hope of Congress coming to the aid of the liquor interests before the Constitutional Prohibition Amendment becomes effective on January Ist has now vanished.
Thousands of liquor dealers and distilleries in the bigger cities stare ruin in the face, for all had expected a wet spell covering Christinas, and several weeks afterwards, during which their immense stocks could bo disposed of. Estimates of their immediate losses run as high as £200,000,000. Kentucky distilleries had 40,000,000 gallons of whisky when they realised the predicament in which the adverse decisions of the court left them, and a wild scramble for freight cars occurred to carry their liquor to ports for shipment to Europe, because the Revenue Board ruled that all liquor intended for export must be out of the country n month from to-day.
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 January 1920, Page 4
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