Gin, Etc.
Sir, —Probably by now the average palate and stomach are pretty well vitiated through imbibing, faute de mieux, various brands of “hooch”; so the effects of native New Zealand gin may prove something short of lethal. But “N’Zilland” brandy may well involve a fate worse than death Our procreant Government, it seems, imagine that, by a stroke of the pen a country can produce things that older and more knowledgeable peoples have taken generations to perfect. Still, this is all in the character with a brash and egalitariaii age,
and no doubt we may live to see State houses lavishly adorned by Chippendale and Sheraton, Old Masters and Ming vases, all manufactured lovally—like Mr Nash’s near- (or not-so-near-) Cognac and duly' authenticated, aesthetically, and functionally by the timehonoured, triumphant guarantee—‘‘She’s right.”—Yours, etc., ILAM. June 22, 1958.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28619, 23 June 1958, Page 3
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