WHAT IS IN BEER?
)fj - REMIT AMUSES FARMERS. . LL;: Hearty laughter greeted the motion k/'That''-the union should see if it cant/'not. do' something under the Pure '- Foods" Regulations to compel brewers fi to use 'genuine malt and hops in the of beer," when > brought the executive of the New ZeaI land Farmers' Union at Wellington. : "; MrV: W. H. Gane (Marlborough) •''•• submitted the remit, which, Was sent {".forward from MVirlb.oroughV • He sam i the■ growers in that district were satisItiied rthat the brewers were not putthe barley and hops into the I'Jheer; that they did years ago. !> VMt. R. O'Connor 'i(Nelson) : There j.js ; ■some other substitute taking the 'lplace of bai'ley in beer. We feel that is an old and respected drink. Kit is : a drink of common use, and we v;inay-as well have good beer as well pW-, bad- beer. .'' (Laughter and hear, The . speaker urged that n, 7should be dealt' with as a pure food, 'landing that some, people might stop ■drinking* .if> they Ikhew what it was! iinade of. .''■'•' '.'. , '' ■* v '.-,--Oap'tain Rushworth suugseted that fif 1 it; were; brought up under* the Jpure-Foods :Act it would come under fetKe •."AjrbitratiohCourt. That might laniincTease/in'the cost of living. , ' The "remit was thrown out. :
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Thames Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 17923, 26 June 1930, Page 8
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203WHAT IS IN BEER? Thames Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 17923, 26 June 1930, Page 8
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