CORRESPONDENCE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 85, 9 April 1872, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

To the Editor of the Nelson Evening Mail. Sir. — I hear it is the intention of the brewers or rather the publicans to reduce the price of beer to twopence per glass. This is hs it should be, and I wonder the price wasn't reduced long ago. In these hard times, when money is cruelly scarce, and work not always to be had, a penny is a penny, and it is by the pennies that th« till gets filled, whether in shop or bar. Considering that wages have been lowered in all directions, and the price of every kind of material reduced in proportion, the publicans, sure enough, ought to let fall tbe price of beer too. Aa it is I think the publicans almost save a half-penny in each glass of beer they sell, for it is not an imperial halfpint measure is that tumbler, though you can get the pewter by first calling for it. I don't say that the publican, pure and simple, would really rob a poor man of his beer if he knew it, but you know it is the way they have or rather the custom of public-houses to sell by the glass. I don't think that the Inspector of Weights and Measures could do anything in the matter either, but I know this that if tbe price of beer is not soon reduced I have come to the wholesome determination to teetotal henceforth, as it is not very likely the sod of the Nelson and Foxhill railrailway will be turned until perhaps after the meeting of the Assembly, for then Ministers will be the better able to see bow the political wind blows down Blind Bay, and steer accordingly. I expected a job on tbat railway. I can't live on the air, so must sail close to the wind in the meantime. I am, &,c._ A Navvt. mmmmmmmmmm^mmimmmmmmmmmmmmimmm.mmmmmimm^.mmmmmmmmmmmmmm