PRICE OF BEER
TO TH EDITOR. Sir, —If I ask my milkman for a pint of milk ho is in duty bound to supply a pint. If 1 ask for a pint of beer in an hotel I am given a handle which does not contain a pint. Have we, the drinking public, no redress? I Lave with the milkman. Again, I might ask, where is the justice in adding CJd to the halfpenny duty placed on a gallon of beer by way of duty by the Government? Verily, as one writer has already mentioned, the writing is on the wall, and many that have never done so before will next time vote Prohibition as a means to stop the robbery of the beer drinker. I might mention in fairness that there is at least one hotelkeeper (there may be more) that I know has not raised the price of his bottle beer (Is 4d), nor have his glasses grown suddenly smaller, and a pint is still a pint.—l am, etc., Another Froxhblower. September 10. [This correspondence is now closed. -Ed. E.S.]
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Evening Star, Issue 20585, 10 September 1930, Page 7
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182PRICE OF BEER Evening Star, Issue 20585, 10 September 1930, Page 7
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