Hotels Object To Whisky Price Rise
(N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, Oct. 11. Several Auckland hotels have rebelled at the 2d a nip whisky price increase recommended last Friday by the Auckland Hotel Association. Spokesmen for the hotels said they did not think it was fair to increase the bar price on whisky which they had bought at the old rate. These stocks could last to Christmas, they said.
The increase to Is 6d a nip recommended by the association was based on a wholesale price rise of 2s 6d a bottle—equal to less than Id a nip. Hotels which have imposed the latest rise said there had been a little buyer resistance to the new whisky prices, particularly to over-the-counter bottle sales.
They said whisky drinkers might try to obtain their supplies from wholesalers, from whom a bottle was about 6s cheaper than the new hotel price of £2 3s 6d. A Hotel Association official today denied rumours that gin prices would rise at the end of the month.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30879, 12 October 1965, Page 3
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