“Rum Was Well Appreciated."
First and foremost*. I object to Prohibition, because such a law, if passed, would be taking away- a man’s freedom in a free coountry. It is a moral certainty, to my mind, at any rate, that the “powers that he” would not Slave issued to the troops and the Navy the daily tot of rum if it were detrimental to the health and well-being of the lada in the trenches. Not much 1 The writer had five and a half years’ service with the Imperial Army in France and England, and I can say ‘Akat as far as I know, our rum was 'tvcll appreciated, in spite of the “wowser” element. I was in" “dock” (hospital) on one occasion, and a kindly old lady asked a Cockney in the next bed to mine, “What are your favourite flowers, my boy?” “ ’Ope, missus, wiv a frowth on top,” _was the quick reply—then, mnm, I could manag a pot er “Pig’s Ear” (beer) orlright.” E. S. F. (Lower Hutt.)
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2500, 31 October 1922, Page 5 (Supplement)
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171“Rum Was Well Appreciated." Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2500, 31 October 1922, Page 5 (Supplement)
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