“NO IMITATIONS”
DESIRE THE REAL STUFF ENTERTAINING U.S.A. FLEET By Telegraph.'—Special to “Times.” AUCKLAND, July 21. New Zealand hosts and hostesses who find themselves in doubt as to the correct liquid form in which hospitality should bo extended to the officers and men of the United’ States Fleet, will he interested in an opinion on the matter, expressed by one of the officers’ wive* who arrived by the Niagara. “Now, you tell your folk they can he just as hospitable to usa* ever they like,” she declared with a twinkle in her eyes. “Don’t you make any mistake about it, we’re looking for it—good hard stuff. We are hoping , for champagne at our parties, aa4 I assure you there will some very disappointed people in the. Pacific -Fleet If it isn’t there. ' We had near cocktails home-made whisky in' Honolulu, but it wasn’t near enough. We are looking forward to the real stuff now for a change.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12196, 22 July 1925, Page 7
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