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SPIRIT IS THERE
Scotland Watches
U.S.A. Elections
PROSPECTIVE
MARKET
Scotland has more than a super
ficial interest in the American Pre
sidential elections.
Mr. 'William McGregor, who re
turned to Western Australia in the
. Jl.M.S. Strathnaver today, said that if
1 the United States 'so wot' a ready mar
ket will be found for the 20 years' re
sorvc supply of whisky the Scotch dts
liller.s have in stock.
Mr. McGregor, who is the chief the
Brisbane Caledonian Society and fhp.
Burns Society, and who has been visiting
his estate in Scotland, has wide business
interests in Queensland, where he has
boon engaged in building and contracting
1 f--r many years. He is a director of Cas
* tlemaine Perkins Ltd., brewers, of the
Builders' Brick Supply and the Federal
Mutual Fire Insurance Company, rind is
ssent for a well-known Scots distillery.
'Whisky is still very dear in Scot
land,' said Mr. McGregor, 'but the spirit
of the people is not affected,' lie hasten
ed to add.
Whisky enough;
The distilleries have closed, and, with
20 years' supply in hand, they were
waiting eagerly to see how the American
liquor question would develop. Consump
tion of the spiirt was affected by the tax
of 8s 5d a bottle and while the impost
existed there was little hope of the de
mand increasing.
'The closing of the distilleries over the
winter is a great hardship in Scotland,'
said Mr. McGregor., 'for if you assume
that only 20 men arc employed by each
distillery — the majority, of course, em
ploy more — hundreds arc thrown out of
work by a closure. But, should America
go wet — well, Scotland, so far as her dis
tilling is concerned, at least, will re
joice.'
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