TEA AND LIQUORS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2461, 1 August 1922, Page 2

TEA AND LIQUORS

DOMINION FIGURES. Wellington, vJulv 30. According to a paper tabled in the House of Representatives, the consumption, of spirits in 1921 was 2.55 gallons per head of the adult male population. This was .08 of a gallon les.s than the consumption in the previous year (2.63 gallons). The highest consumption on record in the period 1901-21 was that of 1015 (2.75 gallons). The consumption of wine and ale aud beer is computed upon the male and female population over 15 ■ cars. The 1021 figure for wine 0.26 of a gallon. More wine apparently wits drunk iu New Zealand in 1021 than in any other year of the last two decades except 1920, when the consumption was 0.20 of a gallon per head. The drinking of ale find beer has been considerably (ess in the last, five years than in the 15 years immediately preceding them. The share of each member of the male and female population over 15 in the ale and beer drunk in 1921 was .04 of a gallon. The consumption of the past two years looks small in comparison with that of 1907 which was 0.42 of a gallon. Tea. the consumption of which is computed on the whole population of the Dominion, was drunk at the rate of 6.31 b per head in 1921, and of 8.241 bin 1920. The year 1020 saw more tea drinking than any other in the past 20 years, except 1914. when the consumption was 5.72 U) per head.