Not lone ago, a certain brewer being out of lack, made application for employment to a Melbourne brewery firm of decayed fortune. He was accepted and proved to be a diamond of the first water. The beer of this firm rapidly became famous, and now its net -annual: pro fits amount to the nice little sum of £80,000. Having given his employers a taste ; of his quality, ha arranged l ais i terms/'yi2f.,lilJooo a year, fixed salary, and . half-a-orown oh every hogsheads turned out of the establishment. The weekly output nayer faJJa below 850 hogshead m the worst winter mohtha, and during the summer it reaches 1250. This is every week; mind ; sq - if you add about 100 half-crowns- weekly to a salary of LIOOO a year, Jjou f will .: find thq " screw" of a succeasfal brewer is not bo far behind' that of a 'colonial Governor. The London Journal earnestly advise* New ' Zealand colonists' to cultivate the J cast6r '6jl :^ljint. ; At the present time, this ' oil to the r vaiue p&n^lesa than £85,000, is annually imported into Great Britain alone ; France and Germany also utiliaf large quantities!
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 107, 13 April 1883, Page 2
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