CHEAP BEER.

Evening Star, Issue 4262, 24 October 1876, Page 4

CHEAP BEER.

To the Editor. Sir, —I am glad to see the attention of the public of Dunedin is being called to the price they have to pay here for colonial beer, it has for a long time past been a mystery to me why colonial beer should be 56 per cent, dearer here than it is in other Provinces; but the explanation you give to " One who likes a drop of good beer" in your issue of the 21st instant is no doubt correct, and I hope the public will take the hint you give them. If the beer was sold here at the same price as it is in other places—viz., 3d per glass or 6d per pint—the retailer would still have a large profit—somewhere about L 4 on the hogshead. Ihere would in all probability then be more beer consumed, and less ardent spirits drank than there ia at present, which would be all the better for the health of, the consumers. It would also give an impetus to a local industry which deserves to be encouraged. As it is now, there is no difference in the price charged tor a glass of' English beer and one of Colonial; consequently it is not giving the article a fair chance, which, in these times of political economy, is not an unimportant fact. lam one of V ose who have t» dine at an h"tel or eating house every lay, such as Watson's or Dusning's, and I would, as a rule, take my glass of beer with my dinner if it was to be obtained <'it a reasonable price, but I do grudge giving 6d for a small glass of beer, especially for one of local manufacture, When there is no legitimate reason for its being dearer here than lscwhere, but, on the contrary, one would opine it ought to be cheaper if anything.—l am, &c, NoBSLT. Dunedin, October 23.