The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1896. BRITONS AND BEER.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 121, 20 November 1896, Page 2

The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1896. BRITONS AND BEER.

o The attention which has heen given within the past few years as to " what we shall eat and what we shall drink," and the consequent appointment of inspectors to examine bread, meat, wiiits, uud spirits, of suspected purity o as to protect the consumer as much is possible, has gone a step further. Wo are told by an exchange the quesfion of beer has now entered upon a peculiar phase in Great Britain, where Government in deference to the wishes of a majority in the House of Commons, have appointed a Pure Beer Commission to enquire and report upon the question whether legislation is required to prevent the use of deleterious substances in tbe manufacture of beei, and whether the materials of which beer may be composed can be defined by Jaw without undue interference with the liberty of brewers to use any wholesome materials in brewing. The members of the Commission are as fol-lows-.—The Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery (chairman), Dr James Bell, C.8., F.R.S., late principal of the Inland Revenue Laboratory ; Sir J. H. Gilbert, F.R.S., the agricultural chemist ; Professor Odlin, F.R.S., F.C,P., Professor of Chemistry, Oxford University ; Mr H. W. Primrose, C.8., C.5.1., Chairman of Board of Customs ; and Mr Ulare Sewell Bead, with Mr W. Blain, of the Treasury, secretary. The labors of the Commission may have a good result so far as giving the public a better knowledge of the various modes adopted to make this favorite English beverage, and what particular brands to patronise or to avoid The Beer Adulteration Prevention Act, which is certain to be a sequence of the report, will do an enormous amount of good, and secure to the poorer classes a wholesome beverage, and thus do much to pre vent the absolute and degrading intoxication which too often has followed the consumption of certain poisonous decoctions sold under the venerable old name of English beer.