1,338,012 297,337

1,635,349 1,731,239 555,459 2,286,698 17,825,871 6,441,681 1,350,106 377,513 1,727,619 15,463,239 1,371,761 273,213 1,644,974

11,889,956 3,700,553

15,590,509

24,267,552

4,702,563

20,165,802

14,546,394 3,117,844

17,664,238

(c) The per head quantities for 1917-18 to 1920-21 cannot be stated, no complete estimate of the population in those years being available.

TABLE 9.-Home-made Spirits: Stock, Production, and

Spirits retained for con

31st March, 1925 147,746, 126 sumption (Table 8) (Table 10)

Re-warehoused on re-importation, &c.

Exported (Table 12)
Exported as Medical Pre-

12,054,621
6,811,941

171,278

376,691

Distilled in 1925

Used in Arts and Manu-
factures (Table 74)
Methylated (Table 75)

731,923

26 (Table 11).. 37,758,992 Deficiencies allowed, &c.

8,720,959
3,133,914

32,001,327

TABLE 10.-Home-made Spirits: Stock in Bonded Warehouses.

TABLE 11.-Home-made Spirits : Quantities Distilled.

TABLE 12.-Home-made Spirits: Exports. (a)

Great Britain and Northern Ireland only.

(a) Excluding Methylated Spirit and Spirits used in Medical Preparations exported.

(a) Including Absinthe, of which 1,693 gallons were imported and 879 gallons delivered for consumption in 1924-25, and 1,325 gallons imported and 676 gallons delivered for consumption in 1925-26.

(b) Liquid gallons.

(a) These figures include in each year a small quantity of rum (347 proof gallons in 1925-26) entered as Imitation Rum, being the produce of countries in which the sugar cane is not grown.

(b) Duty increased (see Table 7). Duty on foreign rum increased from 1st September, 1919, under Imperial Preference.

(c) Figures for collected revenue and corresponding dutiable quantities in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Proof

Proof

Gallons.

£ Gallons.

£

1,162,546

876,843

381,607

1,141,571

861,667

1,252,020 1,858,546|

176,567 290,401

1913-14 1917-18

1918-19 (a) 1919-20 (a) 1920-21 (a) 1921-22 1922-23* (b). 1923-24*

1924-25*

1925-26*

..

Proof
£ Gallons.
Per cent.
306,987 1,544,153 1,183,830 +6.64
142,002 1,318,138 1,003,669 -14.26
444,242 1,542,421 2,302,788 +17.02

1,526,684 3,798,933 396,724 1,012,408 1,923,408 4,811,341 +24.70
861,798 3,163,844| 263,876 978,237 1,125,674 4,142,081 -41.48
555,267 2,091,421| 240,427 919,157
412,149 1,552,108 253,940 969,191
388,139 1,461,677 310,365 1,184,588
336,689 1,267,864| 316,455 1,207,782|
308,187 1,160,723 327,755 1,250,907

(a) Duty increased (see Table 7).

Imperial Preference.

Great Britain and Northern Ireland only.

Duty on Foreign Brandy increased from 1st September 1919, under

(b) Figures for collected revenue and corresponding dutiable quantities in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.