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$5,600,000 PROFTT EARNED ON LIQUOR (continued) permit--holders from breweries and a total of 104,599, which carpares _ brewers' w--rehouses from Nov. 1,1933, with 118,741 the preceding year, to July 23, 1934, totalled $27,752,675, a decrosse of 14,142 or 11.9 of which $18,979,821 was sold from per cent. liquor stores, and $°,772,853 from § ' breweries and warehouses. In addition, Mc from July =4 +o Oct. 31 (after hotels opernated), sales from breweries and ' warehouses totalled $8,340,981, making --__ _ the year's total $36,093,657. The record of places having authority for sale, as of Oct. 31, shows : Standard kotels C ¥% % C & * 01.053 Clubl............l'ls Steamship companies . . . . . 2 Rail"yl........... 1 Cancell©tions f Standard hotels i «+ t * *« + «* TL Clubs.............S At present there are 1,071 hotels with aut orities and 179 clubs. j Permit cancellations totelled 2,091, and revocations 232. Staff personnel has been reduced from 1,066 to 904, a drop of 162. Salaries : totslled $1,561,097, plus executives' > salarics of $27,395. ' Total expenses for the yerr were $2,242,651, compared with $2,306,758 the previous ye--r. LQ"y is hisho "The Dominion Customs and excise levies continue to be a major pro-- portion of the cost of 1i uor,"says 7 the report, "and any substential re-- " 4 duction in the board's selling prices & is cont'ngent on a reduction in the im ' posts of the Yominion Government." Figures are given to show the Dominion ; § collected $5,001,798 on alcoholic beverages purchased by the board. In addition there was indirectly paid the Dominion for malt duties on dom-- estic beer sold in the Province over $2,500,000, Dominion taxation on native wines from Ontario wineries direct to consumers approximated $65,000. During the yesr 15,500 tons of grapes were used in the manufacture + of wine, concentretes and grape juice. A slig»t increase in the sale of native wine. ' Permits decrease. Annual liquor permits on Oct. 31 4J numbered 178,517 resident, and 9,783 . 3 .__| noneresident » total 188,300, as against ; 192,894 resident and 21,762 none=resident '5 = total 214,656, in the previous year f e = a decrease of 26,356, or 12.27 per cent. £ $ "Sales of special wine and beer permits j% were 102,008 resident and 2,591 non=resident,