Brewery
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Battle
The brewery battle in NG de loped a political flavour in May hen the Leader of the Federal pposition, Mr. Colwell, claimed at the Australian Government is subsidising Australian beer ■ports to New Guinea, through ■port incentives, to the detri ent of local New Guinea •eweries.
He particularly referred to arlton and United Breweries td., of Melbourne.
General manager of the Carl n Breweries, Mr. R. F. Fogarty, mied the allegations. He said \s company could claim incen ves by way of tax exemption nly on expenses incurred in ex inding exports. The P-NG \arket had been an export one n his company for 50 years, he tax exemption claims to date mounted to no more than £lO9, hich was more than offset by te total tariff protective margin, lus freight. New Guinea beers ould thus be sold at lower rices than those of his company.