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Shannon News, 1 August 1922, Page 3

“Anti-Dry,” in a letter to The Post, complains that whereas before the war a pint of beer served in mugs or tankards contained 20 fluid ounces and cost 4d, in the public bar, the “Wanganui,” or handled glass mug has been substituted for- the pint, and brimful .it contains buit 16 ounces, less one or two ounces taken up by froth, reducing the pint; to 14 ounces. But the Licensed Victuallers’ Association had now sanctioned a “Wanganui,” or “alleged pint,” to quote the correspondent, “holding 12 ounces, which, allowing for loam that a good barman is careful to produce, gives the purchaser as close) to half a. pint as it is possible to obtain.” In this way, the correspondent adds, the price of a’ shilling a pint is arrived at. It is pointed out that the price of a hogshead; of beer, of 54 gallons, is £7 to £7 10/, so that the reduced “Wanganui;”- the correspondent asserts, will, cost the publican a fraction over 2d. It is admitted that some publicans have tabooed the “Wanganui.” Hie price of beei% according to the correspondent, has been reduced in Auckland.

A lew. years ago one of the big trees of Calilornia was cut down; the rings of the cut: stem numbered 2425, so that that tree had begun life 525 years before Christ came, a persistent unseeing. witness of what vicissitudes of people, what changes of nations, what oscillations of thought that; tree- had lived through.