Rise in beer prices?
A small increase in the price of beer is expected before Christmas, but a bigger rise will follow, probably early in February.
Hotel and brewery spokesmen said yesterday that the Brewers’ Association had applied for a 1.03 per cent increase to recover higher malt costs.
The Hotel Association of New Zealand will seek permission from the Department of Trade and Industry to pass on any increase to the bars, according to Mr T. Sheehy, of the association’s Wellington headquarters. The association would not recoup the increase with sales ,of glasses of beer, Mr Sheehy . said. They would be unlikely to cost more, but jugs would probably be affected.
Hotel workers’ wage negotiations will start this week.
Mr Sheehy said that if a settlement close to the national average of 13.5 per cent was reached, which was likely, the association would have to apply for additional beer-price increases, to offset that and other running costs.
“They would take effect probably in the first week in February, when the new wage rates would start,” he said.
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