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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4381, 22 February 1922, Page 3

, "I'm pot a whisky drinker, but I drank more Whisky in New York than anywhere else in all my experience,” said Mr Ivor Evans, ‘ a well-known Melbourne hardware merchant, in discussing his' experiences on a tour abroad. The occasion was a smoke social byr-the Victorian Hardware Club to members who had Recently returned from abroad. Amid bursts of laughter Mr Evans described his experience of prohibition in America. He went out, he said, to the house cf a leading citizen, who cautiously led him upstairs, unlocked a door, and, having entered, locked the door again, unlocked a cupboard, and entertained ’ the guest with some excellent whisky —the best he had ever tasted. The visitor was astounded, however, when the' host, before locking away the wMwlry, carefully washed the tumi bjetß which had been used, explaining that he dared not let the maid jEfikjrqr what had been in them 1