FOUR PER CENT. BEER
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AMERICAN PLAN LEGALIS ATION- * RECOMMENDfeD BY COMMITTEE OF U.S. SENATE POLITICAL SENSATION CAUSED
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Kec. mai*. ZU, 5.5 p.m. WASHINGTON, Saturday. A political serisation has beeri caused by a Senate special coriimittee recommendirig the legalisation of • forir per cent. beer. - _ . .' In making its recomhiendation the committee advances ' • the following reasohs: — - ; (1) It would promote temperance and -decreasecrime. The beer would be non-intoxie.ating. • (2) Xt would give employment to probably 1,000,000 persons. • One huridred thousand farmers could derive profit from growing between 6*0,000,000 and 120,000,000 bushels of the necessary barley. (3) The tax yield from the beer solif wouid be from £69,400,000 to £160, 000,060. (4) Hotels and restaurants could recapture business n'ow diverted to sly-grog shops. The jecommendatiohs are in the form of a report based upon expert testimoriy arid will be la'id "before the Senate.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 178, 21 March 1932, Page 5
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