EMPIRE WINES.
(From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, June 29. The Imperial Food Journal publishes what is called “An Hotel Episode,” which is an example for all good and patriotic citizens. The scene is one of London's largest hotels in the Strand; the time, luncheon hour, the guest, it is revealed in a footnote, is Mr Hal Williams, well known in New Zealand as in London. Guest: Waiter, fetch me the wine list, please. Waiter? Here it is, sir. Guest: I don’t see Empire wines on the list. Waiter: No. they aren’t, sir. Guest (indignantly) : Why not? I have had them here before, and then it was said that this hotel stocked them. Waiter: Oh! that was a special occasion, sir. Guest (still indignant) : Was it? Well, take away the wine list: if I can't have Empire wine, I certainly won't have any other. The editor offers copies of his journal free for a year to tho first three readers who send in the name of the hotel thus found to be lacking Empire wines on its wine list.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3831, 16 August 1927, Page 76
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178EMPIRE WINES. Otago Witness, Issue 3831, 16 August 1927, Page 76
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