PASSING ON OF TAX
HIGHER PRICE OF BEER
SUGAR WORKERS OBJECT (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. The increase in the price of beer was discussed at a meeting of employees of 'the Colonial Sugar om paiiy's Chelsea refinery .yesterday and a resolution was unanimously passed strongly protesting against the action of hotel licensees in racing the price of beer. The passing on to the wage earners of any ol |he •increased beer taxation without (the specific sanction of the Governmen was resented.
The meeting demanded that beei should be sold by imperial measure and suggested that 6d was a fai price for a pint.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20023, 23 August 1939, Page 5
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105PASSING ON OF TAX HIGHER PRICE OF BEER Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20023, 23 August 1939, Page 5
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