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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19133, 30 September 1936, Page 6

As it is likely that special illuminations will lio required in the streets and on the municipal buildings in Dunodin on the occasion of the King's Coronation in May, 1937, the city electrical engineer has been authorised to purchase 40CO lamps, at an estimated cost or £250. Though a pood deal «! interest has been aroused in Giebottie by the announcement that Scottish distilling firms are proposing to cut off supplies of bulk whisky for New Zealand, no one in the. trade' is prepared to comment, on the prospects without first having an oppor-tunity-to stndv the. position. The importation of case whisky will not be interfered with, of course, but the national bill for ardent spirits will increase substantial) v, by all indications, if case whisky is consumed in the -same volume as hulk whisky which has been imported into the country below being bottled. A large propoiiion of the spirits sold in New Zealand ai present is. bottled in the Dominion, and while there are fashions in whisky as in other commodities, it is claimed 'by men who have given study to the matter that there is not a great deal to choose between thp respective lines of good-class Scottish and Irish whiskies retailed in this manner. Whether the proposed course of tho Scottish manufacturers will be followed by (hose in oilier countries producing whisky is at present uncertain.