MATURING WHISKY
TOUR ROUND THE WORLD [Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, October 2. A valuable consignment of whisky which is being transported round the world to accelerate maturity will reach Auckland from Melbourne _ by the Union Company’s steamer Kairanga tomorrow. The whisky is contained in 61 butts and 74 hogsheads, and its value in England is £55,000. The liquid quantity is 10,732 gallons. The cargo was carried from England to Melbourne via the Cape of Good Hope in the steamer Royal Star, and at Melbourne it was transferred to the Kairanga. At Auckland the whisky will be loaded on to the Shaw, Savill, and Albion liner Tamaroa, which is to sail for London via Panama next Friday. When the Tamaroa reaches London about November 11 the whisky will have travelled about 26,000 miles. From London it is to be returned to Glasgow, where it was made, and_ it will then bo stored for a further period until it is fully matured and ready for consumption.
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Evening Star, Issue 22460, 3 October 1936, Page 21
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165MATURING WHISKY Evening Star, Issue 22460, 3 October 1936, Page 21
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