OUR DRINK BILL.
It seems, 'according to the (fritak bill of 'New'-.Zealand, says ihe Sydney Evening News, thart the Dominion is drinking Jess, and..ge!tt.in.g.„dauinJier j'.'it. is igohig strong on hard stuff, it is swallowing more' hew; •iboth.imported and locally manirfoctiired, ibat it hate slowed down- 'dn wine. "Many tibecJrists (ill the. drink question," the NeHvis proceeds, "think that it would be Kcilve'd if the community, would let spirits and Ibeer alone and stick to •wine; 'not, iof course,, the (truculent stuff tHat is sometimes in evidence l , ibut dlanets", hocks, arid other light vintage. 'Australia, whether torrid o.r temperarte, imight foe expected to turn naturally to the actual 'wine of the country,' wihile Ne'w Zealand, halving no vineyards, 'tfnd Ibeiing a windy, cold and Rheumaticky kind of place, wouilid lean itoward* the more; potent liquids. And that as what lit seems- to bei doing. .Or, .perhaps, as the grip df no-license increases, those.,-who can tflffnk arC'trying to raiake the, best of tne time that is left.tq#iera."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10644, 27 May 1912, Page 4
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166OUR DRINK BILL. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10644, 27 May 1912, Page 4
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