Territory booze bonanza BEN LANGFORD
November 17th, 2008
MORE than 4 million litres of pure alcohol was sold in the Territory in the past financial year - the equivalent of more than 215 million full-strength beers.
Figures from the Justice Department show wholesale volumes totalling 4,033,434 litres of pure alcohol.
If all this alcohol was sold in full-strength beer cans it would total more than 80 million litres - enough to fill 32 Olympic swimming pools.
The grog numbers are for total alcohol sales in the year - and include visitors to the Territory.
But questions are being asked about the Territory's ability to deal with such high grog consumption.
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