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EXHIBIT No. 21— continued. The annual drink bill, estimated from the Customs and excise returns for the sixteen years from 1870 to 1885, inclusive, average £2,599,553 per annum. This would give for the fifteen years from 1870 to 1884, inclusive, a total of £38,993,295. Following this are given below the annual expenditures for the twenty-six years which have since elapsed to 1910, inclusive. The estimated population prior to 1896 was exclusive of Maoris, but in 1896 and onward has been inclusive of them. ,-, ~ , , Estimated Cost of Cost per Head listimated T . , , n r , ~ „ P Iti Liquor consumed. of Population. 1870 to 1884 .. .. .. .. 38,993,295 1885 .. .. .. 600,000 2,289,514 3 16 0 1886 .. .. .. 600,656 2,154,855 3 11 9 1887 .. .. .. 603,361 2,093,430 3 0 5 1888 .. .. .. 607,380 2,085.162 3 8 8 1889 .. 620.279 1,911.788 3 1 8 1890 .. .. .. 625,508 2,111,498 3 7 6 1891 .. .. .. 634,058 2,083.898 3 5 9 1892 .. .. .. 650,435 2,169,166 3 6 8 1893 .. .. .. 672.265 2,198.335 3 5 5 1894 .. .. .. 686,128 2,099,552 3 1 1 1895 .. .. .. 703,360 2,129,119 3 0 5 1896 .. .." .. 757,503 2,265,900 219 8| 1897 .. .. .. 762,079 2,371,738 3 2 21 1898 .. .. .. 776,288 2,458,998 3 34" 1899 .. .. .. 790,387 2,557,968 3 4 9 1900 .. .. .. 803,333 2,747,170 ' 3 8 4| 1901 .. .. .. 822,779 2,922,982 3 11 0J 1902 .. .. .. 840,031 2,953,298 310 3§ 1903 .. .. .. 865,560 3,056,590 3 10 7-i 1904 .. .. .. 889.776 3,152,849 310 10| 1905 .. .. .. 915,060 3,120,705 3 8 2| 1906 .. .. .. 944,490 3,360,12] 3 11 If 1907 .. .. .. 967,017 3,667,379 3 15 10 1908 .. .. .. 994.434 3,751,968 3 15 5| 1909 .. -... .. 1,021,214 3,628.137 3 11 0J 1910 .. .. .. 1,040,442 3,803.438 3 13 lj 1911 .. .. .. 1,075.250 3,859,371 .3 12 U Total for forty-two years .. £111,998,224 Landed value in 1910, £466,785 ; and in 1911, £442,251-—all sent out of the Dominion.

EXHIBIT No. 22. Return showing the total amount of Duty collected on Spirits, Beer, and Wine at each Port in New Zealand, and the amount of Consumption thereof per Head of Population, during 1911.

Note. —Spirits: Adult male population, including Maoris. Wine and beer: male and female population over fifteen years, including Maoris. C. S. Nixon, For Secretary of Customs. Department of Trade and Customs, Wellington, 10th January, 1912.

Auckland Kaipara Tauranga Poverty Bay New Plymouth . . Patea Wanganui Wellington Napier Wairau and Picton Nelson Westport Greymouth Hokitika Christchurch Timaru Oamaru Dunedin Invercargill Ports. Spirits at 16s. £ 135,263 683 19,874 13,011 1,637 26,576 135,801 29.859 4,746 | 8,236 4,944 11,330 3.514 109,321 15,854 84,912 28,671 Wine. £ 7,808 1 7 1,288 786 172 1,419 10,389 1.947 213 406 389 797 155 7,227 515 15 4,351 720 Beer (Imported). £ 6,729 1.143 344 3 1,490 8,093 1,108 132 956 Beer (Excise). £ 28,108 2,654 779 3,438 13,421 4,096 1,100 2,021 1,846 2,059 2,573 17,923 2,320 134 4,215 199 2.583 236 35,034 1,715 Totals . . 634,232 38,605 792,790 gal. ' 143,152 gal. 2-5 , 0-2 „ £1 19s. 2fd. j Is. Id. 27,365 119,087 9.526.960 gal. 13-3 „ 3s. 4d. Total quantities Amount per head Duty per head .. 273,650 gal. 0-4 „ 91d.