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60,000 BOTTLES OF WINE AT A PARIS FEAST.

A monster banquet was held on November sth in the Machinery Hall of the Champ de Mars; Paris, near , the Eiffel Tower, when no fewer; than .50,000 delegates of mutual aid societies sat down to

dinner. They were attended, says a correspondent, by an army of 5000 waiters, and there were provided :— 25,000 bottles of red wine. 25,000 bottles of white wine. 10,000 bottles of champagne. 25,000 bottles of beer. 10,000 bottles of milk. 50,000 bottles of mineral waters. 30,000 cigars. 5000 boxes of cigarettes The cost to each delegate for the dinner was only 3s. The delegates, with bands and banners, first mustered in the Tuileries Gardens and marched to the Trocadero, where they were addressed by President Loubet. After a concert the vast army of delegates, who came from all parts of France and from foreign countries, resumed its march across the river to the venue of the banquet. The seating of the 50,000 naturally took a considerable time, and the. earliest to arrive were kept in good spirits with the music from the massed bands, and with glasses of wine which they found poured out for them. President Loubet entered the building when all were seated, and on a raised platform drank prosperity to mutual aid societies amid enthusiastic applause.

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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XIV, Issue 834, 1 March 1906, Page 24

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60,000 BOTTLES OF WINE AT A PARIS FEAST. New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XIV, Issue 834, 1 March 1906, Page 24

60,000 BOTTLES OF WINE AT A PARIS FEAST. New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XIV, Issue 834, 1 March 1906, Page 24

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