A Picture story: Back from long war service to the old home city that had nine to nine beer when he last knew it, a post-war John Citizen finds things puzzling, tough. He reads that despite ample malt, hops, labour… Read More ›
Perth
School’s in…
Digger (right) holds glass of beer in one hand, “tosses ’em” with the other, while others of the impromptu Hay Street (Perth) school” await the result. – The Daily News (Perth, WA) Friday 22 November 1940.
Reverend Sander’s visit to Perth’s ‘seamier pubs’ found nothing ‘disgusting’
THE man with his hand on a bar room door in Perth is the general secretary of the Victorian Temperance Alliance, the Rev. E. S. Sanders. He is an investigator for the Victorian Royal Commission into liquor problems. After visiting a dozen of Perth’s seamier hotels he said,… Read More ›