NEW BREWERY

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 963, 5 May 1930, Page 10

NEW BREWERY

PROPOSAL FOR MANGERE DEFINING BEER’S STRENGTH The success which attended the flotation of a company to take over the Otahuhu Brewery, has apparently prompted the attempt to secure another brewery licence for Auckland. The secretary of the Auckland branch of the New. Zealand Alliance, Mr. L. E. Falkner, states that information has been received of a proposal to erect a brewery in the Mangere district. The support of prohibitionists was invited on the grounds that only beer of a low alcoholic content would he manufactured. The new brewery proposed to limit the alcoholic content of its product to S per cent., which was considered almost harmless. It v.-as thought that Pi ohibitionists would not' oppose the manufacture of light beer of this description. The secretary of the Alliance stated that his organisation was certainly of opinion that the alcoholic content of local beer was too high and should be reduced to a standard strength, Dut that it did not agree that O per cent, beer was non-intoxicating. r “ e , Alliance would not support the establishment of another brewery in Auckland on the pretext of manufacturing light beer only. If a licence was granted there would be nothing to prevent the manufacture of liquor of greater strength. The Licensing Act did not define the strength of beer, but a movement was on foot to secure the limitation D f the alcoholic content of all New Zealand beer.