Off To Collect The Best Of Spirits
" ' TN V K KC ARGILL, August 1. The ehainuan of the Invercargill Li censing Trust (Mr Hugh Eiteliie) _ anc! ceneral manager (Mr L. E. Raiuesi will leave Auckland bv Trans-Tasman Airways on August 11 on a month's visit to Australia. _ . Tlie mniu ob'ect of the trip is to buy spirits. They hope also to obtain direc agencies which will enable the trust to buy on much better terms. "It is our intention to 'buv only the best and not just good selling lines," Mr Ritchie said. "It ha,s always been the trust 's poiicv to give quality ir respeetive of cost and we intend to in vestigate the prospects for rum, gin. bvandy, wines and whislty. It is recog-^ nisod. of course, that the quality of Australian whisky has not been satis factory but we have heard it is im proving and for that reason we are in- ' vesligating the position." yir Ritchie said he wished to inake rt clear that whatever quantity of Australian whisky they bought, it would not affect the trust 's purchase of Scotch.
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Chronicle (Levin), 2 August 1949, Page 6
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