BEER “DROUGHT” REFLECTIONS IN SYDNEY
SYDNEY, April 20. The beer shortage, due to the strike of brewery workers, which is now in its eighth week, is having a very bad effect on the health of Sydney people, according to Dr. H. J. Foley, who' has heen elected to the health and recreations committee of the City Council. He told the City Council that the effect on health was caused by bad spirits which were being drunk widely as a substitute for beer. The police at the main city stations. however, claim that over the past two months arrests for drunkenness and crime associated with it have decreased sharply. They say that the period is the slackest they have known and that arrests have declined by about two-thirds. Accidents caused by drunken drivers and pedestrians are practically nonexistent. This statement has been challenged by Mr. N. H. Connolly. president of the United Licensed Victuallers’ Association, who produced metropolitan court figures to show that there has been a definite increase in cases of drunkenness. The strike has deprived the Commonwealth of about £2,000,000 in excise and the State revenue has suffered by about £40,000. '
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22617, 21 April 1948, Page 5
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192BEER “DROUGHT” REFLECTIONS IN SYDNEY Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22617, 21 April 1948, Page 5
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