A Terrible Thirst at Norfolk!
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NO empties—no beer!” That was the reply of the Wellington breweries to an order from Norfolk Island late in June for 600 dozen bottles of beer, to be des patched post-haste per the Vila Star.
Vila Star, already loaded with gasoline and other general cargo,
lay at the wharf while urgent pleas flashed by telegraph.
“Shipping to Norfolk is scarce enough—don’t let her go without the beer”—was the substance of anguished messages from the Pacific tourist Mecca.
Finally, the brewers relented and released “some hundreds of dozens —but not the full order,’ on the
promise that the equivalent numbe: of empties would be got to Ne\ Zealand “by hook or by crook” ii the near future.
Norfolk-men were wiping ther chins in anticipation when th( happy news came on July 3 tha Vila Star —and the beer—was on tin way.