Liquor
p. 27 · Read in the full issue
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W. Samoa’s Legal Liquor Now is Dearer
R[E Implementation Of The
new Western Samoa customs tariff has caused a disturbance amongst that Territory’s drinkers.
When the new tariff came into force on October 1 there was a sham rise in liquor costs. Scotch whisky is now 25/- per 26 oz bottle; or 37/- per 40 oz bottle, with Australian whisky 19/- per 26 oz. Jamaican rum, 26 ozs, is 25/-, and English gin £1. French brandy is 25/- and champagne £2.
There is a sharp criticism of the increases which vary from 25 per cent to 100 per cent above the former prices. A substantial in crease in the output of illegal home-brew is forecast. if Mr. A. J. Birtles, deputy-head master of the Newington Methodist College, Sydney, has been appointed principal of the Brisbane Boys’
College. Mr. Birtles at one time was headmaster of the Methodist Mission’s teachers’ training college in Fiji.