BEER LEGALISED

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 151, 7 April 1933, Page 5

BEER LEGALISED

NEW REGIME IN AMERICA. STATES’ POSITIONS VARY. NINETEEN “WET” AT MIDNIGHT, (United Pres. 3 Association—Copyright). (Received This Day, 8.50 a.m.) NEW YORK, April 6. Nineteen States and the District of Columbia go off the'bear-beer standard .at 12.1. a.m. to-morrow, when the sale of beer containing 3.2- per cent, of alcohol by weight and 4 per cent, by volume becomes legal. Brewers in some States plan to deliver as soon as it becomes legal. Others, ruling out jubilee parties -at midnight, say that beer will not lie delivered before breakfast time. The nineteen States are Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Washington and Wisconsin. Six other States have set later specific dates, ranging from April 13 to July 1. They are: Louisiana, Vermont, North Carolina, Wyoming, West Virginia and North Dakota. Still others have proposals pending to legalise sale. 1 The regulations vary as to' where and how beer can he sold. The price is expected to vary. One price quoted frequently in New York was one dollar 60. cents wholesale for a case of 24 bottles. FIRST LECAL SHIPMENT SINCE 1920. LONDON, April 5. The first legal consignment of beer since Prohibition was enforced in 1920 left England for New York by the Majestic, which is taking moro than 8300 bottles. AMERICA’S! GREAT NIGHT. MIDNIGHT WATCH FOR. MANY. VANCOUVER, March 27. Throughout the United States, the evening of April 6, will witness a celebration w'hich is expected to completely over-shadow any New Year’s Eve. Americans are getting ready to welcome the return of liquor. The Federal authorities have ruled no “legal” beer shall leave the breweries before one minute after midnight on April 7, but crowds in New- York, Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Louis intend to spend the night before that in getting ready. . sm The Milwaukee and • Chicago Qity Councils have declared a half-holiday so that everyone may acquire an out-of-door thirst.