BREWERS’ USE OF GRAIN AND SUGAR

White Ribbon, Volume 19, Issue 3, 1 April 1947, Page 10

BREWERS’ USE OF GRAIN AND SUGAR

Sir, —We are being urged by our Government to make every sacrifice possible to save food to help feed the starving millions of Europe and Asia. The question that concerns many of us is this: “Are our Government and the British Government honest in their endeavour to prevent waste of food?” In Britain since the war be-

gan 4,200,000 tons of grain and 1,008,0001 b. of sugar have gone to the breweries. Now we read that the British Government is making a paltry reduction of 15 per cent in beer production. In New Zealand our drink bill has steadily increased, so that last year it was approximately 712,000,000. We have not heard so much as a whisper of a reduction in the production of beer and wine in New’ Zealand,

although the brewers and wine makers have been subjected to sugar rationing Surely it is a scandal that food should be wasted on alcoholic liquor with its attendant evils, w’hile millions arc on ne verge of starvation. Or do our Governments consider it more important that shareholders should continue to receive their dividends ?*—l am, etc., INASMUCH. Waipukurau, May 14.