WATERED GROG.
Alluding to the recent prosecution of a number of Oamaru publicans for selling spirits which had been reduced in strength by the addition of pure water, the “Mail” says:—“Soma may say, ‘ Lot the drinkers add tho water themselves.’ The answer to this is, that there are hundreds of men who would scorn to ‘spoil good liquor by tho addition of water,’ and that as it is generally recognised that the drinking of proof spirits is injurious, it is the duty of our lawmakers clearly to state the minimum strength at which liquor should be sold. What that strength should be—whether the stauderd of 25 per cent, below proof of Victoria, accepted by Mr Watt, or the standard of 15 per cent, below proof adopted by Mr Parker, or some intervening standard, should be fixed—we leave to those better versed in those matters to determine. Some standard is necessary, alike in justice to the publicans and the public, and tho law should clearly define that standard.”
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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2053, 22 September 1880, Page 3
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167WATERED GROG. Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2053, 22 September 1880, Page 3
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