SCOT VIEWS N.Z.
HARRY LAUDER LIKES US —MOSTLY IMPRESSION OF DRY AREAS NEW YORK, Tuesday. Sir Harry Lauder, Scottish comedian, arrived at New York today. He had much to say of his 60,000-mile world tour, but most about New Zealand. Having travelled from end to end of New Zealand in pursuit of his hobby of fishing. Sir Harry said he caught two sharks and “a cartload of trout.” The people of New Zealand mostly were hospitable. He had met many of his own countrymen there, and .if he had accepted all the invitations m 3 received to stay with Duncan Macdonalds, Sandy MacDougalls and Peter MacTavishes he would not be in America yet. Asked if New Zealand was “dry,” Sir Harry replied: “I will tell you how it is. Some places there are ‘dry’ and some are ‘wet.’ The difference is that in ‘dry’ territory they get liquor in barrels and in ‘wet’ territory they get it in pints.” The comedian will sail by the Mauretania on April SO for Dunoon, on tlie Clyde.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 950, 17 April 1930, Page 11
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174SCOT VIEWS N.Z. Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 950, 17 April 1930, Page 11
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