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Two important official report were issued during the autumn, deserving care. ful study by social students. One is the Sixteenth: Report of the Commissioners
EDINBURGH, December 8th, 1995. of Customs and Excise for the year
Throughout the whole of Scotland the ended March 1st, 1995. The other is the football felds were again frost-bound. Licensing Statisties England and The Rugby game was brought to a com Wales) for the calendar year ra. These
These plete standstill and one of the great Reports provide the latest information contests of the year, the Inter-City be- available as to the trade in alechelie tween Edinburgh and Glasgow had to bo liquors in Great Britain, its machinery abandoned, and will not now be played and the results of its operations. We this season. propose to deal in this article with the Customs and Exciso Report, and in second article with the Licensing Statis
tics.
The Report, may be considered under three heads:Manufacture and Imports: Consumption; and Revenue.
It was characteristic, however, of the football that all the games in the exactions of present-day Association Scottish League First and Second Divi- sions were carried through As was to prising results were returned, but, apart be expected under the conditions, sur- from their immediate, bearing on the points table, these need not be accepted as a serious indictment of form. On the
The net
MANUFACTURE AND IMPORTS.. British Spirits. The production clippery and dangerous grounds players spirits in Great Britain in 19248 was less wisely avoided risks, teams were forced by 13 per cent.
ro abandon their customary style of than in 1913-14 20 35,630,000 42,000,000 gallons in the earlier par goals in unorthodox manner.
proof gallons, as against play and tactice, and fortuitous and occasionally lucky movements produced Of the 133 distilleries operating, 12 were in Scotland and nine in England. Yeast outcome of the day'a proceedings was manufactured in ten distilleries, did not to any great extent alter the which produced one-third of the total prospects of the various competitors, output of spirits. The great majority of and even Celtic's unlocked-for lows of the distilleries are pot-stills in the pains will not disturb their supporters' Highlands, with an average output of optimistic views the club's champion about 112,000 gallons per year, as against ship chances. It was probably the big- an average output of over 1,000,000 gal geat surprise cf the afternoon that loos in distilleries mainly using "patent- Clydebank, the bottom club, should run stills." Owing to the decline in whisky them to a draw at Celtic Park. Almost consumption, the Highland (pot still as sensational was Airdrieonians reverse distilleries have agreed to an overhead in their match with Morton, this being reduction of 25 per cent in the current Airdrieonians first defeat at home for season's make, and a corresponding re three year. Rangers lost another point, duction is to be made in the grain (patent Kilmarnock drawing with the preser still) distilleries, but there is no need to Champions. St. Mirren made progresS anticipate a shortage of British spirits, by defeating Motherwell, a club which as there were over 138 million gallons in has declined somewhat of late. It was. Bond on March 31st last. Sova a day of disaster for Lanarkshire, as Imported Spirits.-There has been a Hamilton Academicals also were not remarkable decline in this class from only beaten bat overwhelmed. Hibernians 5,870,000 proót gallons in 1913-14 to scoring eight goals against four for 257,000 gallons in 1924-23, or 45 per cent. their visitors. The Edinburgh club re- Tum has fallen from 3,429,000 to 1,148,000 quired the pointa badly, and even yet are proof gallons, and brandy from 1,544,000 relatively level with Clydebank and only The to 853,000 gallons: the later figures, how better placed than Queen's Park: ever, exclude the Irish Free State..
'amateurs encountered a sixth successive den Park. Once again the premier side reverse when Dundee beat them at Hamp. were unfortunate, two goals being lost in the elesing moments of a game that Dundee bave lost as many games as they seemed to be running" in their favour, have won, but have been singularly successful in their visitors to Glasgow, where they have beaten Rangers and Queen's and drawn with Celtic Dundee United also took toll of a Western club, Partick Thistle being defeated by a 1924-25..... 1,102,352 Ditto.
penalty goal,creditable victory for the The margin available for drinking after promoted club. In the North Heart of the normal domestic supply has been metidlothian defcated Aberdeen by does not seem to be very large. The ex couple of goals, obtained. by superior ports of spirits in 1924-25 were. 8,237.000 forward play, and the club are now so as compared with 10,407,000 proof gallonsell placed on the table that they must (UK) in 1913-14, even including the vast be seriously considered in Championship quantities alleged to be amuggled into the reckoning. United States de
Industrial Spirits.-The quantity of spirits received by methylators for con- version into methylated spirit
was 8,197,000 proof gallons.
In view of the suggested increase in the use of such spirit for potable purposes. the following figures of hulk gallons issued nay be of interest :-
19114... 1,754,314 (U.K) 1923-24 1,945,144 (Great Britain and Northern Ireland).
BEER PRODUCTION. The Report again calls attention to the continued fall in the number of licences issued to brewers for sale. In 1870 there. were in Great Britain 34,450 "brewers for sale" brewing about 3 million bar- rels of beer; but by 1691 the number had fallen to 11,102, brewing about 32 million barrels. In 1924-25 the number was re- duced to 1,991 brewers, brewing (Septem- ber 20th) 23,028,000 selling barrels. The concentration of the brewing, trade is in- |dicated by the fact that in 1920 about 65 per cent of the output in the United Kingdom (including Guinness) was made by under five per cent. of the brewers licensed (see Parliamentary Answer, June 17th, 1920).
The quantity of beer produced in Great Britain in standard and bulk barrels
Was:-
1913-14
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Hibernians, 8; Hamilton Academicals,
Aberdeen, 0 Heart of Midlothian, g. Airdrieonians 1 Morton, 3. Celtic, 1; Clydebank, 1. Cowdenbeath, 3; Falkirk, 0. Dundee United, 1; Partick Thistle, O. Kilmarnock, 2; Rangers, 2. -Motherwell, 0; St., Mirren,” 1.
Queen's Park, 1: Dundee, 3. St. Johnstone, 3; Raith Rovers, 1.
This remarkable decline is attributed by the Trade to the high taxation on spirita, but there seems to be a change in the attitude of the public generally to these highly intoxicating Equors.
Beer. Owing to the fact that no record has been kept of the movements of beer from one division of the United Kingdom to another, the consumption in Great Standard Bulk
Dilu on Britain in 1913-14 must be a matter of Barrels. Barrels. Barrels estimate. Probably the rate of produc- ... 31,791,000 34,025,000 2,231,000 tion in Great Britain in 1913-14 to that 1918-1011,468,000 21,458,000 9,902,000 in 1924-25 approximately represents the 1920-21 ... 23,562,000 .31,023,000 7,471,000 decline which has taken place-namely, 1922-23. 18,589,000 23,932,000 5,343,000 about 33 percent, a standard and $2 1993-94 19,881,000 25,410,000 5,529,000 per cent. in bulk barrelage. The actual 1994-95... 20,850,000 28,723,000 5,773,000 consumption of beer in Great Britain in The quantity of beer imported from the standard gallons as against. 97.62 stan- 1994 (calendar. year) is given as 17.80 Continent has always been negligible, and dard gallons in 1913 (UK).. in 1913-14 was only 74,205, standard bar: Wine-The quantities imported for rels, but now beer from the Irish Free home consumption have already been State is incinded un imports, and in given, and represent .34 gallon per head 1924-25 was approximately 1 million of the population. standard barrels or about 1,600,000 selling
barrels.
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REVENUE.
Wine-The imports of wine shows The total revenue derived from the marked increase since the war, being Trade in alcoholic liquors in all its 15,054,000 gallons for Great Britain in branches was as follows:-
1924-25, as against 11,637,000:gallons for
the United Kingdom 1913-14-The fol-,
lowing table gives the countries · "off origin:
U.K. 1813-14
Great Britain. | Beer
Gallons.
899,192
202,550
1924.95 Home Spirits. Gallons Imported Spirits Wine
2,591,447 2,060,003 3,287,128. 8,182,081
Spain= 2 2,678,370
Germany
-France
Portugal
2,777;375.
Italy r Australia
303,198 703,776
520487
614,654
Other British
277,178
Possessions 332,901 Sparkling wines (included in above) were 938,816, as against 1,306,287. in 1913-14 Port wine is not a teetotal drink" About three-fourths of such wine con- tained at least 20 per cent. of abrolate alcohol
CONSUMPTION
Spirits. The following figures show the consumption in Great Britain in 1912 and 1084-26;-
1924-25.7 Per Groes, head. Gross head
1913-14.
England nod Wales 22,560,000) Scotland 8,859,419 3.43
1,253,000
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Liqour Licences Monoply Value Club Duty
1913-14
(United
1924-23.
(Great": Kingdom) Britain)
13,051,014 81,987,330 18,530,777 42,824,674
4,435,8838,228,930
1,152,291 3,752,029. 4,422,807 4,418,476,
20,821,69,799:
63,048 $169,576
43,200,226 141,450,815
In 123 the Beer duty was so reduced as to bring the price of beer down one peany per pint. The effect will be 'seet in examining the figures of beer produc tion already given
The Report shows the curious fact that, while 12,287,000 proof gallons of home- made spirits paid: £42,600,000 duty, the ported wines was only £3,750,000. The amount paid by 15,650,000 gallons of im- ||
wine contained about 2,750,000 gallons of absolute alcohol; the spirits a little over 7,000,000 gallons The tar per gallon was T7a8d, for the wine and 1223. for the whisky
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