Most hotels running out of beer
About two-thirds of the estimated 50 Christchurch hotels and taverns affected by a tanker drivers’ delivery’ ban are expected to be without draught beer by this evening.
More than a dozen hotels and taverns ran out of beer yesterday as the drivers, employed by New Zealand Breweries. Ltd. continued their ban on beer deliveries in the city.
The 30 drivers imposed the ban last Monday in protest against the company's refusal to pay them for' time lost when they were suspended during a brewerv workers’ strike in August.
A meeting between representatives of the company and the Canterbury Drivers' Union is planned for Wednesday under the chairmanship of an industrial conciliator (Mr F. Gerbic). The drivers themselves will review the ban on Tuesday.
The drivers have limited their ban to the city and suburbs because thev believe that most of the hotels and taverns there are owned or leased by New Zealand Breweries.
Working men’s clubs are exempt from the ban. It is also believed that beer is still being delivered to other chartered
clubs. Dominion Breweries outlets are not affected. The executive officer of the Canterbury branch of the Hotel Association (Mr R. W. R. Broom) said yesterday that beer supplies were very low in the city area. Two-thirds of the affected hotels and taverns could be out of draught beer by this evening.
The manager of the hotels division of Ballins Industries, Ltd, (Mr A. L. Reddiford) said that the company ran about 18 hotels in Christchurch and suburbs and that all of these had already run out of draught beer in their bottle stores.
About half the hotels had no druaght beer in their bars and the rest were expected to be dry by last evening or today. ”
Mr Riddiford said that his hotels had reasonable supplies of bottled beer but that these stocks would be exhausted by the middle of next week if the ban was not lifted.
“It is unfair, really, because we are not even involved in the dispute,” he said. “We are unable to meet orders for Christmas functions and sports clubs. It is a particularly bad time of the year to have this sort of thing going on.’ 1
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