THE DRINK BILL.
It will be gratifying to social reformers and lovers of temperance to know that the drink hill of the Dominion, prepared from, official figures, shows a decrease in the consumption per head for the year 1911 of 63d compared with the previous year. Tho decrease is Ismail, it is true; hut it■ .-is nevertheless in view of the fact that I for some years past it has shown a tendency in it-he other direction. It j is still a. shocking thing to find that. | it costs every man, woman and child in the Dominion £3 12s 6|d per year for alcohol. We talk of depression in ou'j- cities,, and of the roadless ha deblocks, 'and yet we pour nearly four iniMions cf .money down our throat* everv vea.r.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10620, 27 April 1912, Page 4
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131THE DRINK BILL. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10620, 27 April 1912, Page 4
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