Empty Beer Bottles Available Following Holidays in District

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 14569, 13 January 1948, Page 3

Empty Beer Bottles Available Following Holidays in District

mas “Cheer”

A err fifteen thousand dozen at ,A MOUNT MAUNGANUI

rvative estimate that some 15,000 to 20,000 dozen A con bottles would be collected at Mount Maunganui y be^. r to believe that visitors, campers and residents dl been able to do something about the thirsty weather H during the holiday period. One firm engaged in rie , nC thm of bottles on a large scale told the Bay of Plenty + tip we ek-end that as a result of a few trips to Mount isat • 2000 dozen "empties” had been collected. . D&aIlU1 exhaustive inquiries made it was believed that this F roDl ®lv about one-tenth of the number made available the Christmas and New Year holidays for a period of flays. , nf the firm of bottle :tl u','| £ Almost been confined 5 “ios which had yielded , to o f 2000 dozen.. Since 11 4 the collections had cnlelY at Mount Maur }’ ! f Jfh the pressure of busil d i fsv period of the year hl 4a township and its imr Sirens had not been Xe and since the holiday

the period from December 23 until January 23. This estimate, the firm added, was a conservative one. Since December 23 until January 9! the number despatched totalled 4000 dozen.

Lever complete the collecfeats [different parts of the district Christmas had brought to u „f; P c” the result of the Christmas cheer supplies, nf the estimate that S to 20,000 dozen bottles ’were consumed at Mount nifover the holiday period sbkhome until one realises monetary value is equal to 0 t £15,000. Spread over a nf ten days, the sum of would mean that in effect ao (trunk each day. f anticipated that the firm despatch some 7000 dozen s” for return to brewers, m

A report from Wellington states that upon resuming their rounds after the Christmas recess most Wellington bottle collectors are reported to have found that the majority of backyards and sheds they have visited have been worth a call. Even in what has become known in their trade as the most modest of beer-drinking households, at least half a dozen “empties” awaited them. In households which reputedly had a greater capacity for drinking beer, the quantity rose in some cases to 12 and even 20 dozen.

Although this sudden increase in the empty beer bottle trade is a good thing for the casual collectors, what' is of more importance to the brewer is that the bottles find their way back to him as early as possible or else beer-bottling will suffer because of an acute shortage of bottles.