BRITISH BREWERS
HIGH BEER DUTY FOREIGN WINE PREFERENCE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, August 12. Lamenting the high duty on beer at the Brewery Company’s meeting, the chairman, Sir William Butler, said that the consumption of wino per head had increased by nearly 50 per cent., as compared with the 1914 rate. This was due to the alcoholic content of wine hearing a rate of duty approximately half that on beer and one-sixth of that on spirits. Ho _ was unable to understand why foreign products like wine should obtain this huge preference over home-produced beer and spirits, unless it was due to the strange British weakness for encouraging foreigners at tho expense of the home producers.—Reuter.
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Evening Star, Issue 19328, 14 August 1926, Page 4
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