NE W ZEALAND’S DRINK BILL.
The icurrent number of “The New Zear land Trade states that New Zealand’s drink bill increased all round last year. 'Analysing the figures for the last three years it has shown that the increase in Custom’s revenue of £-252,629 shown in the year’s income arises' in the North Island to the extent) in round numbers of £127,000 to £107,000 in the- Island and to £BSOO in the parcels post-. The heaviest increase (£77,000 )is seen at Lyttelton, and is mainly no doubt thie outcome of the International Exhibition. In the spirit® there is for the year the heavy -increase of £37,282 —a little over 7 per cent. In 1 the two years from 1903>-4 to 1905-6 the increase was only equal to a shade over 2 J per cent while the increase in population was at the rate of about 3 per cent per annum or 6 per -cent for the two years. Wine and beer also show a very unusual rate of increase. In tobacco there is an increase of about 4 per cent, in cigars a-nd snuff about 8 per cent, and cigarettes over 14 per cent. The heavy rate of increase exhibited, in many lines must be attributed partly to the general prosperity and high spending power of the comi munity, and partly to the special influence of the Exhibition. The excise duty collected in colonial beer in 1903-4 was £96,720, -ini 190E5 it was) £95,220, in 1905-6 £98,135, and lastyear the figured rose to £107,573.
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Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43102, 8 June 1907, Page 4
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254NEW ZEALAND’S DRINK BILL. Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43102, 8 June 1907, Page 4
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