THE PRICE OF BEER.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2597, 5 March 1889, Page 2

THE PRICE OF BEER.

TO TDK EDITOR. Silt,—A great deal in being said just now about competition and the profit of the middleman, but as yet no one has attacked a gross imposition that is generally found at nearly all country townships. lam informed on reliable authority that colonial ale can be purchased from the Waikato brewers by the local publicans at a lower rate than the Auckland brewers supply the town hotels, and yet we have to pay a hundred per cent, more here in Hamilton than is done in town where the rent and expenses, etc., of running hotel* are so much greater. I plead guilty, Mr .liditor, to being fond of my beer, but I can see rio reason why i should be compelled to pay (id for what can be purchased for 3d not a hundred miles away, where the same article is more expensive wholesale. This is a question that I am sure is of great inteistt to many working men, and here in H;imil«n) \v'o seem to have to pay this priw to keep font hotels goin'_', where two wonld bo ample, Should any of our Hotel keepers liavo the pluclc to bej:;n t t'Wie by lowering his price, I am sure he would be supported to the extermination of the opposition,—l am, sir, yours truly, Working max. Hamilton, -Jtti Ma;-ch, 1889.