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BEER PRICES AT RACES

Caterer’s Appeal Upheld (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, April 30. The Licensing Control Commission ruled today that beer can continue to be sold at Trentham in soz glasses for 6d. The authorised quantity for 6d in hotel bars is 9oz. The judgment delivered by the Commission—Messrs A. M. Goulding (chairman), and W. G. Gentry and F. P. Kelly—allowed the appeal of James Young, director of the catering firm of Burke and Company (N. 1. Ltd., against the decision of the Heretaunga Licensing Committee that the firm must sell beer in 7oz glasses at Trentham. Burke and Company are general caterers and for 30 years the firm has been operating the conditional liquor licences and the catering arrangements at the Trentham races. In its judgment, the Commission notes it might be desirable to aim at a uniform size for containers

in which liquor is to be sold under conditional licences. “If the size of containers in which beer is being sold under these licences within the present price order and the prices charged are such that undue profits are being made by licensees, then the matter is one which, in the public interest, should be investigated and uniformity imposed.” The Price Tribunal was the statutory tribunal to undertake such an investigation, the Commission’s judgment said. Complaints To Committee

The judgment stated that in requir ng the catering company to sell bulk beer in 7oz glasses, it appeared the Heretaunga Licensing Committee had acted as a result of complaints it received about the size of containers in which beer was sold at Trentham races.

The judgment added that without proper accounts, carefully compiled, the mere statement of gross profit margins, such as were mentioned before the Heretaunga Licensing Committee and the Commission on the sale of beer in SoZ-. glasses, might be most misleading. Only a close analysis and a full investigation which would take into consideration all factors associated with the sale of liquor under the conditional licence could enable any tribunal to arrive at a proper conclusion as to whether or not the licensee selling beer in containers of any particular size was making an unreasonable profit. The judgment said the condition imposed by the Heretaunga Licensing Committee in this case was a denial of the right which the

holder of a conditional licence had under the order of the Price Tribunal to sell beer in containers of a capacity less than 7oz. The Commission had been led to the conclusion that it was beyond the power of any licensing committee to attach a condition to a licence that in effect over-rode an order of the Price Tribunal.

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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28265, 1 May 1957, Page 19

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BEER PRICES AT RACES Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28265, 1 May 1957, Page 19

BEER PRICES AT RACES Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28265, 1 May 1957, Page 19

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