First printed in The Age, December 3, 1947.
Beer Gross sales Solely One Hour Every day
Beer shall be offered in Melbourne inns for just one hour a day as from to-day. Typically will probably be between 5 and 6 p.m.
This was introduced yesterday by the president of the Licensed Victuallers’ Affiliation (Mr. H. S. Gleeson).
The brand new hours observe a 40 per cent. lower in bulk beer provides by Carlton and United Breweries Restricted on account of the latest dispute within the malt business. The dispute was settled yesterday.
The State government of the Waterside Employees’ Federation will meet to-morrow to resolve whether or not to boycott loading of inter-State shipments of beer.
Loading
The final supervisor of Carlton and United Breweries (Mr. Millea) mentioned: “As the corporate resides on a day after day provide of malt from maltsters, it can not brew any extra beer earlier than December 13. Beer now maturing within the vats needs to be unfold to cowl the 11 days misplaced” (within the dispute).
Mr. Millea mentioned that as a result of it took 11 days to show barley into malt, new deliveries of malt couldn’t be anticipated earlier than December 13. The character of the discount in bottled beer was not but sure. It will depend upon the availability of bottles accessible.