THE NO-LICENSE MOVEMENT
AN ANOMALOUS INCREASE IN THE DRINK BILL. Ty Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, November 27. Commenting on the No-License movement, the "New Zealand Times" remarks that the most surprising feature of the movement in New Zealand is that concurrent with a steadily increasing vote for the abolition of hotels, there has been a still greater proportionate growth in the national drink account. During the twelve years covered by the five local option polls, there has been an increase of 22 per cent, in the number of people voting "NoLicense," and an increase of 33 per cent, in the drink bill, or from £2 19s 7d per head of population in 1896, to £3 15s lOd in 1907. This growth has been synonymous with the extension of No-License areas, and with a reduction of the number of hotels in other districts. Clearly the Nc-License vote is swelled to its present large proportions by the cooperation of moderate drinkers with "true blue" prohibitionists. The drink bill for the whole Dominion and the entry of almost unlimited quantities of spiritous liquors into the No-License areas proves that absolutely.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3056, 28 November 1908, Page 5
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186THE NO-LICENSE MOVEMENT Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3056, 28 November 1908, Page 5
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