BEER SHORTAGE
TIED HOUSES OPPOSED MOVE IN AUSTRALIA (9 a.m.) SYDNEY, Feb. 12. Developments in the beer shortage situation include a strong move by a caucus .to release the liquor trade from the present tied house system. A member of the committee of 19 appointed to examine the Liquor Amendment Bill said he would press for an amendment to compel the breweries to sell all tied houses in reasonable time and at a fair valuation. He added that the first essential in the Liquor Amendment Bill was to free trade from the octupus-like grip of the breweries. Fewer than five per cent of the 2030 New South Wales hotels are free, the remaining premises being the property of breweries. Direct action by the Australian Railways Union, the Road Transport Union and .the Liquor Trades Union will be proposed at a meeting in Sydney this week. The delegates will be invited to endorse the suggestion that those unions should refuse to transport beer to country and metropolitan hotels if the beer situation does not improve from a given date.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21944, 12 February 1946, Page 5
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