Enlargement Of The Tahitian Brewery

Papeete, June 20.

irhe old Tahiti brewery, makers the well-known Aorai Beer, is Ling enlarged. The photograph 17 Simpson) shows the old build 's on the left and, on the right, ;3 additions, in course of construc m.

The owners, Etablissements E, irtin, took over the original swery from “Tahiti Joint Ven *e” in 1931. The brewery’s present □acity is about 1,000 barrels a :»nth; under the new conditions, ■should produce 1,600 barrels per >nth. The present brewery em ;>ys about 30 people, and, in addi n to beer, it makes non-alcoholic inks and about 13 tons of ice per v. The well-known brewer, Mr. b Ferman, who has been there 30 years, uses Canadian malt. ifter a very high rainfall during : wet season both Port Moresby, jua, and Rabaul, NG, are now ex iencing trouble with grass fires. »m the middle of May Fire Bri les in both towns were kept busy tecting property and by the end the month huge black patches of ■nt-over grass marked the hill -3S of Fort Moresby.