DUMPING OF PINT BEER BOTTLES
“Breweries Free To Use Them Again” (New Zealana Press Association) WELLINGTON, January 21. An officer of the Price Control Division, commenting on an Auckland message that thousands of dozens of empty one-pint beer bottles made for holding the special extra-strength 'New Zealand export beer are thrown into rubbish tips every week, said that breweries were quite free to use returnable pint beer bottles. “It is not a matter with which the Price Tribunal is concerned,” he said. "When the prices of these pint bottles of extra-strength beer were under consideration by the pricing authorities, the breweries informed them that the bottles were of lighter weight than would be necessary if the bottles were intended to be returnable. The breweries advised the Price Control Division that by using a lightweight non-returnable bottle the cost to the consumer was not greater than if a heavy returnable bottle was used.”
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28800, 22 January 1959, Page 12
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