WHISKY IMPORTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 April 1918, Page 5

WHISKY IMPORTS.

IRANiSPORT>S CONSIGNMENT^ w Wellington, April-A 5s Hesvy importations of whisky famg the United States of America have bwijP noticed on the Wellington vater-fiwfc& thus year, and there is an interestinirm«ii son for this, apart from tke we]Wnu«M difficulty in obtaining Scotch during the war. Ardent spirits hail been banned in the States for the tSaS of the war, and distillers have to looted elsewhere for the market Prdhablfi the sudden stoppage of consumption left them with stocks on hand. coiqm< J cuently the big consignments, both ttiXßt Canada and the States, are explained.'' The Customs authorities are anoftsJig{s( strange brands, so as to ensure th&tjyj&j New Zealand consumer will not get ardent spirits too "raw." under the stress of war conditions, it difficult to get the fully matured and some amendment of tho law to bo needed to make quits sure no unmatured liquor, is placed on ftSfcl market. A recent shipment of cpirrfaJ ! from America, landed in Wellington its,,', tailed 8000 gallons. It is not surprisisjj}: that the American distillers are lobltMkj for "fresh fields and pastures new," mm the beer brewing interest* have coDdudppjj ed a vigorous cgmpaign againstspirits, contending tlut Ihev cause the drunkenness and maintaining other had that—to use' tho words large newspaper advert is sjnent in a city paper by the brewers—-"boor the true hand-maiden i f Though there is great difficulty In geLfi ting spirits from Scotland, a Not.ZwJ! land transport* recently l.indert in Web"* lington a surprisingly large quantity. It* was reported in the citv tliElt this er seemed to carry nothing hut and whisky, but examination. of 'thft-l manifest shows this to be nn exasatfraP

tion. The carpo space wns not fullyU filled, so that the whi-'tv 'miked in the total. The heaviest for drapery establishments, whilo m

whisky comprised 1201 cases and- fifty 1 ' casks, containing in nil 40<w gallons. While there is so much delav in securing many other articles from Fualand. it evident that som« stronsr contrWt -Js'jv necessary over the allocation of ear»o> space in the Government Oiiiw This Ini" Stance will probably ivsr.lt in the cotiimercial communitv making represent®* tirtns, when it will be found that tfot' Government js ondojwnrin" to nrrai&KT for fi nreferentinl list of aroofl m re&poflH to cargo space both from America,