WHISKY DRINKERS

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 April 1927, Page 8

WHISKY DRINKERS

‘JOHNNY WALKER’ INTERVIEWED (Special to "Stai.") AUCKLAND,. April 12. Whisky and those who drink it, is the subject of investigation being made in a world tour by a man who arrived at Auckland by the. Niagara yesterday, Mr. E. Grahame Johnstond, the youngest director of the distillery firm of John Walker and Sons, Ltd., Kilmarnock, Scotland. It is not the Scottish, but the English, who are the greatest individual consumers of whisky, so far as the experience of Mr. Johnstone’s firm goes. “The Anglo Indians are a good . third,” lie added, “but Now Zealand js also well.up in the list.” . .. His firm had sold more whisky last year, ho said, than ever before in its history. / -Commenting on the fact that Scot tisb and .Irish whisky haye’ very few rivarls-4n-any -part of the world, Mr. Johnstone said that even the Canadians were hot —proijjlj* of their ryp whisky. • The name : they have for it is “ff,” which interpreted means ‘'frolic ..or fight.” i A 'brand of spirit that makes its appearance in United States territory also; has a nickname. It was known as “NSS,” an abbreviation for mild insinuation that it “Never Saw Scotland.”