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Southland Times, Issue 22296, 11 April 1934, Page 3

Up in a high pass of the Peruvian Andes stands a monument to one of man’s most incredible experiments. It consists of two towers, built on opposite hills, between which centuries ago, a primitive tribe hung a gigantic net—and tried to catch the sun. Magistrates may be gaoled, according to a law passed in the reign of Edward VI., which made it “a penal offence, punishable by imprisonment, for any person to solicit or induce any of the King’s lieges to abstain from alcoholic drink.” The law, it is stated, has never been repealed, so that any magistrate persuading a man to be teetotal is liable to imprisonment.