GET THERE JUST THE SAME!

NZ Truth, Issue 80, 29 December 1906, Page 5

GET THERE JUST THE SAME!

The number of "private bars" at the Zibishun absolutely astonishes the stranger who gradually gets to be m 'the know through the kindly offices of people who have stalls, and who have bottles. Que gent that this scribe struck the other day had a small consignment of eleven cases of whisky or something milder for people who suffer from the other complaint. Another had seven, and so on. In fact the place reeks of nosepaint, and if there's no. -water available you must take it as neat as a lady's shoe. Sometimes, unfortunately, girls get drunk m the building, and t'other day one got tli ree months for stealing strong waters, but the Zibishun is a big show, and it isn't church, nor is it paradise with its halo off, and one must expect to hear of such things. All lihe same there is scarcely any intoxication notioed, but visitors who "-o m and stay m because they have to pay once again if they leave the grounds for a booze, wish they knew of a friendly stall where they could lubricate.