WHAT IS INTOXICATION?
TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—One does not require to be inspired to realise that your correspondent “New Zealander” is encrusted with prejudice. He asks the question, What constitutes intoxication? Permit me to enlighten him by giving the trade definition of drunkenness: He is not drunk that from the floor Can rise again and still drink more. But ho is drunk who prostrate lies Without the power to drink or rise —I am, etc., Blankslone Hill. Pine Lodge.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19205, 23 June 1924, Page 10
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79WHAT IS INTOXICATION? Otago Daily Times, Issue 19205, 23 June 1924, Page 10
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