TEAROOM STIR.
SUGGESTED GLASGOW TAX. The fame of Glasgow's tearooms, of which there are hundreds, may soon be causing the proprietors some trouble. A tax is proposed! It is estimated that if a tax were proposed on cups of tea—and perhaps coffee —sold it would yield a revenue of over £4OOO a day, or more than a million and a-quarter sterling a year omitting Sundays. Mr. James Uenholm, president of the Glasgow and District Licensed Trade Defence Association, asks "Why not?" He quotes a prominent caterer to the effect that very good tea could bo bought for 2s per lb., which would produce anything from 100 to 150 cups. He speaks of a profit of about 90 per cent. "The'obvious reply to this," a tearoom proprietor says, " is that, even tea requires to be prepared and served, which means labour, utensils, power, sugar and cream, wear and tear, etc., so that a suggested profit of 90 per cent, is absurd."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21153, 9 April 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)
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160TEAROOM STIR. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21153, 9 April 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)
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