Dearer Hops.
CROP EXHAUSTED. PRICE ALMOST DOUBLED. UNPRECEDENTED SHORTAGE. Home-brewers and other users of hops will find that there is an additional drain on their purses between now and March next, till the new season's hop crop is ready for tho market. Usually about 1/4 per pound retail, the price for the next four months will probably be at least 2/6.
Inquiries from retailers and wholesalers produced slightly divergent answers, but it seems that tho whole of last season's crop from Nelson is exhausted and that til] the next one is available for marketing wholesalers will have to import. The breweries have their supplies purchased from season to season, and so have no worries. One wholesaler stated that tho present price was 2/- f.o.b. at Nelson.
"It will probably stabilise at about 2/2 to the wholesaler," he added, "which will mean about 2/6 over the counter. It is a peculiar situation, after the Government has reduced the beer duty so that the subsidiary industries will have a chance to expand."
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Thames Star, Volume LXV, Issue 19271, 28 November 1934, Page 3
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