SCENE OF HECTIC NORSEMAN BEER BATTLE THE HOTEL AT NORSEMAN (WA), where after the conclusion of the ‘Beer Strike’ this week, there was a free fight. Pots were hurled about, beer was seized and eventually the publican had to turn… Read More ›
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Striking Lithgow unionist swapped beer for milk shakes and soft drinks
LITHGOW unionists, who have declared a “beer strike,” will inscribe on a “dishonor roll” the names of men caught drinking beer. This beer strike habit is growing serious. There has been an epidemic of it lately. Pretty soon the breweries… Read More ›
‘B’ Day brings celebrations after six month brewery strike ends
IN what can only be described as typical Aussie humour, when the beer began to flow again across NSW following a six month strike at Tooth’s Kent Brewery in April 1946, it was quickly declared “B-Day”. Tooth’s were the biggest… Read More ›
Barrels of fun: Two week beer drought ends in Canberra
‘Roll out the barrel’ — and the beer drought is on the run. Mr B. Kelly, of Braddon (pictured), cellarman at a city hotel, unloads draught beer yesterday. The drought ended for some Canberra hotels and all clubs when the… Read More ›
Mt Isa celebrated Christmas nine months late, after 1930 beer strike
BOIL OVER Unable to Beer It Mount ISA, Saturday, The 12-months-old beer strike is over, but beer is still one shilling a pot, which means that for 12 dusty, dreary months Mount Isa has thirsted in vain. But today Mount… Read More ›
Beer Strike
WOLLONGONG, Monday. At a meeting of the hotel keepers of Wollongong district on Thursday last it was decided to raise the price of the pint of beer to 4 pence. This rise brought about a beer strike at Balgownie where there is… Read More ›
The Norseman beer battle
THE HOTEL AT NORSEMAN (WA), where after the conclusion of the ‘Beer Strike’ this week, there was a free fight. Pots were hurled about, beer was seized and eventually the publican had to turn on free beer to save his place from… Read More ›
They’d been ‘milked’ enough
THE recent beer shortage in our town (Tocumwal) recalls 1940, when Broken Hill staged a beer strike during the hottest part of the year. Pubs were open. Beer was “on”. But there were no customers. In the blazing heat (temperatures never below 107 deg.), gangs of… Read More ›