BEERLESS AMERICA.
j BAHAMA'S PROSPERITY. San Francisco, Feb, 21. Prohibition in the U.S., which tauted enormous quantities of liquor to dfctcend almost like an avalanche upon "the city of Nassau, in the Bahama Islands, ha*' transformed the Bahama Government's lmaucial condition from a deftcit to comparatively a huge surplus, provided labor for large numbfers of unemployed and put more money in circulation in that little Britisl colony than has been the caße for many years. .Acceding to a telegram to San Franoisco, Sir \Villiam L. AJlardyee (Govw ' nor of the colony)' announced this in • t 4 5 ,. °P enin ß the 1920 aeesion of the , Bahama Legislature* Hnlf-a-. dozen vessels carried , full cargoes of - wines and liquom to the colony, • and duties from them fiavo restored the Bahama Government's fallen fortunes.due to the war, from a deficit to a surplus throe times as large as the ' expected deficit,, or about 555,006 do!- ' l r"' 3 revenue '* at ' .1:,, dollars, and the expenditure at o«10,000 dollars.
In addition, a surplus of 500,000 dollais yearly during the next two vearg at least ls expected from duties "when the liquors are taken out of bond
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 April 1920, Page 5
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