DEAR BEER.

Evening Star, Issue 4260, 21 October 1876, Page 4

DEAR BEER.

V' ' To the Editor. v ■' Si*,—Can you kindry give any explana- :'-■ tion of what appears to me to be a very sib- ■••:- gular anomaly, viz., that in other Provinces, Sttch as Wellington, Auckland and even at • the- Thames, .Dunedin. and other Colonial :l Veere'catf'be obtained at 3d per glass? Here, if yon.caji for a glass of Colonial beer at any •' hotel* you are mulcted in the sum of 6d, and ■'" not only that,' but the glasses they serve it ta you in are smaller than you get in the other places. . , . A i ' ■[.■■. It appears strange, after bearing the exDense of a 500-mUe journey, that Dunedin < iU'feer.ia sold 50 per. cent, cheaper than it can \h got iii'JDunedin.-rrl anv&c., '' ■ i " Ohe Who Likes a Drop of Beer. ■'Dunedin, October 19. '. tTbe only explanation we can offer to our :..:> correspondent is, that so long as the retailers •an obtain the price they will continue to •fearee r 6d. for a .glass of beer, and until evwbqdy'ref uses to drmk beer, unless it is ':' '.-.< wdnced, we see n« chance of the price being .. -lowered, .If is,a puje. question of arrange- -> 1 i ment between buyer and seller.—Ed. Ji.b.J