FLOOD OF BEER
POURED INTO A CREEK ELEVEN THOUSAND GALLONS Eleven, thousand gallons of beer flowed from a brewery at Lithgow, New South Wales, into a creek recently. In accordance with instructions of the new proprietors, the beer was fun out continuously from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., under the supervision of an official, of the excise branch of the Customs Department. It was valued at £IOOO. Hardened drinkers who crossed the creek near the brewery sighed sadly at what was to them a shocking waste of. good liquor. At the point where the beer entered the creek and for a long distance along its course there was a reek of beer fumes, and on the creek water there was a tantalising cloud of white froth as it flowed away to join Cox's River. The beer was sacrificed to enable the proprietors to refit the cellars and repiteh the casks.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21934, 18 October 1934, Page 20
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