BRITISH LIQUOR PROBLEM.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 219, 3 January 1917, Page 5

BRITISH LIQUOR PROBLEM.

LONDON, Jan. 1. The Central News asserts positively that the Government does not contemplate liquor, trade nationalism during the war, owing to the Trade's complicated organisation, the cost, and the probable hostility of the House of Commons to tho proposal as being controversial. The paper adds: The Treasury has been minutely enquiring into the trade financial basis, but this is more likely to have been connected with taxation proposals. Meanwhile there is every possibility of further limitation of the drinking "facilities, and the utilisation of the foodstuffs used for brewing.