PRICE OF BEER

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 46, 23 August 1939, Page 5

PRICE OF BEER

SUGAR WORKERS PROTEST

(By Telegra}'b—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, August 22. The increase in the price of beer was discussed at a meeting of employees of the Colonial Sugar Company's Chelsea refinery. A resolution was unanimously adopted strongly protesting against the action of hotel licensees in raising the price of beer. The passing on to wage-earners of any increased beer taxation without the specific sanction of the Government was resented. The meeting demanded that beer should be sold by Imperial measure, and suggested that sixpence was a fair price for a pint.

MUST BE PASSED ON

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, August 22,

" A statement was made by Mr. M. J. Walsh, secretary of the Auckland Provincial Council, speaking for the wholesale and retail sections of the licensed trade of the province, with reference to the local reaction to the passing on to the public of the recently imposed increase in the duty on beer.

He said the trade in both the wholesale and retail branches had no alternative but to act similarly to the petrol companies and transfer the new impost to its customers. Once again it merely acted as collecting agent for the Government, as it had so frequently done in the past. The trade in neither of its branches was in a position to carry or absorb the new excise duty.