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Taranaki Daily News, 29 May 1920, Page 9

Along with the high cost of living, wages and most everything else, Britain's capacity for strong drink has shown considerable growth for the past year. To be exact, statistics just compiled for England and Wales show thateach British adult nuule away with 41 gallons of beer, eight-tenths of one gallon of hard liquor, and seven-tenths of one gallon of wine in 1019. An estimate of the 1!)19 liquor bill for England and Wales was £380,000,000, compared with .eifio,ooo,floo for 1013- The expenditnr*.' per capita was eight pounds, eight shillings, or l.'i2 per cent, over that of 1313. the grand total of consumption of liquor amounted to 60,000,000 gallons, compared to 37,000,000 gallons for the previous year The United Kingdom Alliance, which compiled the statistics, attributes all tins to looser restrictions. True home comfort with the "Unique" hot water bottle. Seams are heavily vulcanised, patent stopper prevents leak* a<s»- On »aU everywhere,—-53 -