Costly Australian Wine
pp. 61-62 · Read in the full issue
A BOTTLE of Australian wine, which costs 2/6 in Sydney, is sold for 7/in New Guinea—which surely is an outrageous charge, and gives justifica tion to the argument of a correspondent of the Rabaul “Times”, who says that under existing conditions every encour agement should be given to people in the Pacific territories to drink Australian wines. War conditions throughout the world have cut off the greater part of Australian wine producers’ overseas mar kets, and they surely are entitled to the profitable, if smaller and less noticeable, markets near home.
Mr. N. Osborn, a geologist with Aus tralasian Petroleum Co., Port Moresby, Papua, arrived in Australia by ’plane re cently on a short holiday.
The American yacht “Yankee”, on a world cruise under the command of Captain Irving Johnson, has reached the Dutch East Indies. The “Yankee” was in Port Moresby in July. Captain Johnson was accompanied by his wife and two children, and 12 American passengers, who were “sailing before the mast”.