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THE WINE INDUSTRY.

In view of the fact that the wine industry of New Zealand is in peril of obliteration' on account of the spread of the No-license movement, the following, from the annual .report of the Agricultural Department, will he read with interest:—

A medical man who lias spent a considerable time in the wine districts of France makes the following rein air ks iipon the consumption of light wines. Ho says that "In the above-named districts, claret as we know it, or vin orclin- \ aire, as the French, people call it, J is tho beverage consumed at mealtimes in place of tea as in New Zealand. Such a, thing as drunkenness is almost unknown, and when a rase d oes oocur i' s not from wine-drinking, but from the consumption of absinthe." The consumption of light wine with food is, in the opinion of my medical friend,' preferable to drinking tea with every meal. Continuing, tho doctor said, "The light wines contain very small quantities of alcohol, perhaps 7 or 8 per cent., and not much sugar; in fact, as soon as i vou got to the sweet wines you J liavo a much heavier and moro j potent fluid. lam strongly of the 1 opinion that, if the wines of New i Zealand 1 were- more widely known, and were placed upon the market in such ,a manner that any one could purchase them at a reasonable price, a groat deal of the ! whiskv-socla habit would vanish,"

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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 14 December 1912, Page 4

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THE WINE INDUSTRY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 14 December 1912, Page 4

THE WINE INDUSTRY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 14 December 1912, Page 4

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