DIPLOMATS’ LIQUOR.
Someth in'/ like 1.000.000 battles of whisky, sparkling wine, cordials, and oilier imported alcoholic bovernros are uncorked annually by Wash innton’s diplomatic colmiv to tickle the palates of foreign officials and their American gnosis. The above figure is based on an unofficial osl imate mado at the British EnWessy of the alcoholic bcvora<" i s imported annualli for its diplomatic en+ertninnmnts and the personal use of its staff of sixteen. Importations amounted to an "versiffOi of sixteen bottles a day. ’Phis gi Vos an allotment, of a hot lie a day for each diplomat. As there are 2”0 members in the Washington diplomatic colony, a bottle allotment each day for each officer would bring the annual consumption to a figure little short of 1,000.(XX) bottles.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 August 1929, Page 5
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127DIPLOMATS’ LIQUOR. Hokitika Guardian, 22 August 1929, Page 5
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