A page from a circa 1925 cocktail recipe book compiled by Arthur Verney, barman in the Oriental Hotel ,Adelaide , during the jazz era , listed for sale at $950 by Douglas Stewart Fine Books , Melbourne .
There are more than 150 recipes and some occasional splashes of cocktail ingredients on the pages . It is interesting to note that most drinks only cost one shilling and threepence and one shilling and sixpence.
The cocktails had interesting names such as April Sunshine, Aviation, Bloodhound, Blues, Caruso and Cat's Eye.
Over the years , the hotel had a number of names, changed from the Hamburg Hotel to the Oriental in 1915 because of war sentiment against Germany.
The bookshop wondered if Verney spent too much time behind the bar because the Adelaide News of September 9, 1936, ran the following notice .
Orders Nisi granted in Divorce Claims: Arthur Verney, of Gilbert Street ,Adelaide, against Beulah Lillian Kathleen Verney, of Wakefield Street, Kent Town ,on the ground of her misconduct with William Darcy Collett, of Pickering Place, Fullarton.
