BRITAIN’S DRINK BILL
NEARLY £300.000,000 LESS BEER CONSUMED Great Britain’s drink bill for last year totalled £298,800,000, according to the estimate published by the United Kingdom Alliance. Thi3 showed a decrease on the previous year of £2,500,000, due almost entirely to a fall in the consumption of beer. More was realised from spirits and wines, owing to their increased cost. The beer bill amounted to £188,640,000, as against £191,500,000 in 1926. Spirits cost £83,726,000 against £83,600,000; and wines £24,940,000, as against £24,700,000. Expenditure a head of the population was, therefore, about £6 15s 3d, as compared with £6 7s in 1926. The following are some comparisons made: £ National drink bill 298,800,000 Interest on National Debt . . 316,400,000 Gross receipts of railways .. 200,800,000 Local rates receipts 179,948,000 Navy, Army and Air Services 117,600,000 Education Acts 93,000,000 Bread 80,000,000 Milk 70,000,000 War pensions 60,390,000 Unemployment insurance .. 56,160,000 Poor relief 44,000,000 National Health Insurance .. 38,985,000 Old age pensions and Widows’, etc., combined 38,446,000 Taxation collected by the drink trade from consumers amounted to £128,500,000, and that paid by the trade direct to £4,330,024.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 359, 21 May 1928, Page 11
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