THE PROHIBITION CAUSE.
ANNUAL MEETING OF ALLIANCE* INCREASED DRINKING AMONG WOMEN. (Per United Peksb Association.) WELLINGTON, May 7. Over 100 delegates assembled lor tho annual meeting of the New Zealand Alliance to-day. Resolutions of sympathy in tho illnesses which prevented the presence of the Rev. John Dawson 'general secretary) and the Rev. W. J. Com vie (chairman of the Standing Committee) wore adopted The annual report calls attention to the fact that the 1924 drink bill last year reached a total of £8,494,459 —an increase of £401,370 over 1923, and of £1,822,517 over 1922. The report stresses the increase in drinking among women, especially young women, as declared by too police and licensing committees during the past year. Attention is called to tho fact that the total revenue for th 6 three years 19221924 from intoxicating liquor amounts to only £4,845,834. whereas the liquor traffic had promised the voters a revenue of seven and a-half millions for that period. It is stated in the report that, whereas the expenditure on liquor in no-license areas was only 19s per head in 1923, and tho amount consumed only 1.63 gallons per head, in licensed districts the expenditure vva-s £7 Os 7d and the quantity consumed 12.06 gallons per head.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19474, 8 May 1925, Page 4
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207THE PROHIBITION CAUSE. Otago Daily Times, Issue 19474, 8 May 1925, Page 4
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