There are now (writos the Age) 1120 public houses in Melbourne and suburbs. Taking these Imuses as being worth, on the average, including th© value of furniture and goodwill, £3OO a year, the rent-ro 1 ! of the purely consuming establishments figures up th© respect able sum of £336,000 ; and taking the annual value as representing a tenth part of th© capital value, the capital sunk in this jrade amounts to £3 360,0G0. It. must take at least four persons on an average, including landlords, barmen, servants, and attendants, to “ run ” each house. This gives a small army of 4480 persons required to nary on the trade, and allowing that their services are worth on the average £2 a week, including board and lodging, the pay-list comes tu £495,920 a year The annual rent-roll and the mere wages fund therefore amounts to £801,920.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1278, 19 February 1883, Page 2
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