Local & General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 5, 8 October 1948, Page 4

Local & General

Use of Standard Mark During the year ended March 31, 332 applications for licences to use the Standard Mark were received from applicants engaged in 17 different industries. Over the same' period, 325 licences were issued, bringing the total.number of licences granted since 1944 to 897, of which 17 were subsequently cancelled, leaving 880 in existence at the close of the year, says ,the annual report of the New Zealand Standards Council. 1 Beer And Tea 1 The only restaurant in New Zealand in which legally a wife can sip her tea while the husband sinks his beer, the Brown Owl Restaurant, Invercargill, is also the ■ only portion of the. Invercargill Licensing Trust business that showed a loss during the year ended March 31, 1948, according- to the trust’s fourth annual report. The hotels under, trust control in Invercargill showed profits ranging from £72 11s 5d in. the case of the Deschler Hotel to £12,140 9s 2d in the case of the’ Kelvin Hotel, while the bottle stores run by the trust showed profits ranging from. £397 Os 2d in the case of the Mary Street store to £4455 Is lid in the case of the Spey Street bottle store. The Brown Owl Restaurant showed a loss of £2420 14s Id.