GOOD DRINKING.

Evening Star, Issue 3460, 25 March 1874, Page 2

GOOD DRINKING.

To the Editor. Sir, —l thought the nobblerising at the Caledonian games rather a good thing in its way. The frequenters of these games have a reputation for some ability in the consumption of “ guid whiskey,” but it seems they are not a patch on the patrons of the turf. Tak-> ing the price paid for the booths at the Galedonian grounds in December last as a basis of calculation, I estimated the number of nobblera necessary to be drunk in order to make the booths pay as 15*,240,I 5 *,240, if profits were allowed at 2 0 per cent., or 24,480 if th* business wa< done at 100 per cent. Proceeding on the same basis, it will be found that in order to repay the L 334 given as rents for the booths at the races, it will be necessary to sell at a profit of 200 per pent. 2Q.040 drinks at 6d each. In addition' to the ‘rents there is the cost of fittings, conveyance of material to and from the ground, license fees, assistance, A 0., & o. ; these items will make at least another LIOO, or, say, with profit on the transactions, a total gross >«tum will be necessary of LSSU. This amount, at a profit as before of 4d on every 6d taken, S l^ B a sale of 33,000 sixpenny drinks. I will, however, again allow LIOO off the sum total for things eaten, and then it will still . be necessary for 26,400 drinks to be sold to make the booths pay. But it we calculate the profit at 100 per cent., and once more 11 ■ say the doubling of one’s money at a single I

turn over seems a very good" thine—it will be needful that 35,200 drinks be sold to realize the necessary amount. Allowing from noon till 5 p.m. as the hours of Sale tor three days, this gives the * modest consumption of over 39 drinks every minute ciuneg the whole 16 hours. This is as against 34 drinks a minute daring 12 hours at the Caledonian games ; or if the fiiafc estimate of profit be the correct figure, the consumption of drinks will be, say, 29i per minute, as against, say, 25J by the Galedonians.—l am, &c., j- ** Observer. Dunedin, March 23.