Thirsty Samoa!
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Prom Our Own Correspondent APIA, November 12.
DURING the nine months, April to December 31, 1950, the fc lowing quantities of liquor we sold by the Government of Weste] Samoa “for medicinal purposes”:whisky, 2,024 gallons; brandy, 5' gallons; gin, 1,007 gallons; rum, 3: gallons; liqueurs, 72 gallons; win (port and sherry), 272 gallons; ve; mouth, 65 gallons; beer and stor 21,907 gallons.
In spite of the large quantities ( “official” liquor consumed by tl public, there is still a lot of “hom< brewing” of beer going on as well. (Ed. Note./ —This is not a ba effort for a country that is techn cally “dry” and has a populatic of about 200 full Europeans an 6,000 part Europeans, who obtai their liquor on a permit system “f( medical reasons.” The 80,0( Samoans were saved from then selves by article 3 of the old Leagi of Nations Mandate (and presun ably something of the same so: operates under Trusteeship) whic said the “supply of intoxicatir: spirits and beverages to the Nativ< shall be prohibited.”) Mr. W. Fergusson, of Qanta Madang, NG, with Mrs. Fergusso] arrived in Australia on leave, i October.