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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 502, 8 April 1933, Page 5

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Rec. April 7. New York, April 6. Nineteen states and the district of Columbia will go off the no-beer standard at 12.1 a.m. on Friday when 1 the sale of beer containing 3.2 per cent of alcohol by weight and 4 per cent. by volume will become legal. Brewers in some States plan to deliver the beverage as soon as it becomes legal; but others are ruling out jubilee parties at midnight. They say orders will not be delivered before breakfast-time. The nineteen States are: — Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Washington and Wiseonsin. Six other States have set later specific dates, ranging from April 13 to July 1. These are: — Louisiana, Vermont, North Caroline, Wyoming, V/est Virginia, North Dakota. Still others have proposals pending to legalise the sale. Regulations vary as to where and how beer can be sold. The price is expected to vary. One price quoted frequently in New York was 1 dollar 60 cents wholesale for a case of 24 bottles.