License to Sell Hop Beer

Manawatu Times, Volume 68, Issue 210, 4 September 1943, Page 4

License to Sell Hop Beer

(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Sept. 3. Few people knew it was necessary to get a license to make hop beer for sale, said counsel for James McGill, who appeared before Air. Levien, *S.AI.. and pleaded guilty to manufacturing hop i beer for sale without a licence. The ; alcoholic content was under 3 per cent., \ said counsel. The licence was issued j under the Finance Act and not under ! the Licensing Act. Mr. Meredith for tho Collector of Customs, said defendant sold hop beer at the Rio Club for 2s 6d a bottle. It might be better if the people , drank this hop beer instead of the other kind, said the Magistrate. 110 imposed a minimum penally of £5. A Challenge “If we really want this better world for which we are praying and lighting, let us read the election manifesto just issued by the Campaign for Christian Older,” said -Major C. E. Hyde. C.F., preaching at All {Saints’ Church last evening. “Read it and think, then take to heart the message contained in it and demand that representatives in Parliament do the same,” the speaker urged. Rare as Gold Bricks Exclamations of sheer wonder greeted , tlie sale by an Auckland auctioneer the , other day of a 35 yard roll of six-foot , wire netting. It was second-hand netting at that and looked as if it had seen service around a fowl run in all sorts of weather fur a number of years. The price rose from a modest shilling a yard or thereabouts by leaps ami bounds, and eventually this prize ex- , hibit realised a fraction oxer £3. A subsequent, tour of second hand scrap yards in the city proved the truth of the observation of the proprietor of a large concern dealing iu such things. “We never see second-hand wire netting now. It’s as rare as gold bricks. If anyone has any to sell they send it. straight to the auction marts. The campaign to induce householders to keep a few- fowls has swept the market clean. Earlier in the war a good deal of second-hand wire netting found its way on to active service for camouflage purj)oses t ” ,