The New Zealand licensing laws strike many English visitors as peculiar. Confirmation of the opinion was given by Mr. A. Birkett, of Hanley, England, who described them as ridiculous. Mr. Birkett is making his second tour of New Zealand. He said that it seemed as if the time had come to revise them and bring them up to date. English visitors were accustomed to having liquor with their meals, and they missed these facilities in New Zealand when they were not actually staying at a hotel. Australia and New Zealand were unique in this respect. Mr. Birkett said that he had been in hotel bars between 5.3 Q and 6 p.m., and many of the patrons gave the impression that they were drinking to time —drinking rapidly so as to assimilate the desired quantity before they were shut out. At some country hotels he had even found it impossible to get a meal after 7 o'clock, but the comparative scarcity of travellers might account for, that.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXI, Issue 4961, 27 February 1937, Page 5
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