BRITAIN’S MAIN INDULGENCE
Drink is still the pre-eminent indulgence of the English people, and it is always fascinating to follow from year to year the variations It* n national habit that, as a habit, is as lived as the monarchy itself. Das: year her people devoted no less than £ 301.000.000 to preserving it from rust. That is quite a substantial sum. but it is some XI 14,000.000 less than they spent in this way In 1925—a falling-off, however, that is to be excused by the coal strike. The people of Great Britain had to let go of many things during 1926, and it is something to be able to record that they only let go of drink by some 4J per cent. Even in that year of industrial paralysis, when most of them were living on their savings, they found enough for alcoholic liquors to have paid virtually all the interest on the National Debt.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 62, 4 June 1927, Page 13
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155BRITAIN’S MAIN INDULGENCE Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 62, 4 June 1927, Page 13
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