Through Glass
By
WHIM-WHAM
{This electorate embraces about 70 per cent of the hotels in Christcnurch. Do you think it right and proper that they should not have the Weights and Measures Act put on them?" Asked this question at a meeting of Christchurch East electors, Mr. M. E. Lyons, National Party candidate, said he believed that consumers needed adequate protection. "If it can be done by that means," he said, "by that means let us have it. There is definitely a tendency on the part of some manufacturers of glasses to make the most concave sorts of things that delude everyone .. ."J ‘HIS Glass from which I drink Holds less than you might think. This Curve (Please observe) Is cunningly designed For Deception, just to blind My Eyes To the Size Of the Drink-the Quantity Of Liquor served to me. This Pot Which is not As capacious as it seems, Must mock the Man who dreams Of Beer, Not a mere Gimp-waisted Imitation That's half Hallucination. And yet, I forget How grossly I’m) deceived, When Thirst must be relieved; Alas \ All that Glass — (Intended to di [s_tolerantly When I Become dry. Though I would like it longer And sometimes rather stronger, I’m weak (So to speak) Enough to it still, Delude me as they will!
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 189, 5 February 1943, Page 9
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216Through Glass New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 189, 5 February 1943, Page 9
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