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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18238, 24 November 1924, Page 14

libera are only 40 licenses for home brewing in force in Scotland, in comparison with 549 Cin England. Is that because Scots have given up hope of recovering the recipe for the most famous of all home-brews—heather ale? Legend avers that the secret was held by a family of Picts, who died rather than divulge it to their Scottish conquerera, and though heather ale of sorts has pee n brewed in more recent times, it has never equalled the reputed excellence of that old-time drink of the gods. Interviewed by a Press representative ii Johannesburg (reports our Pietermaritzburg correspondent) Senator Thos. Givens (Australia) touched on the Japanese difficulty, and said: "With regard to the likelihood of a way being opened up for Japanese immigration to the Commonwealth all I'll say • to that is, 'Give us another 12 years and Australia will defy the world. We are going to have no Japanese. You can take that fropi v me. Australia is "the Bjosfc'purely. British country in the k •, Ninety-fivo per cent, of Austra- !■ iJS? 8 , M '® Britons, and as Britons, we i» . oTlr country white and