#cellarman

‘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 first consignment of beer from Sydney in over a fortnight arrived. A brewery workers’ strike caused the drought.

The delivery, which came by rail, was for hotels serving Reschs…

Hadley’s Orient Hotel, Hobart

THE Cascade Brewery Co. Ltd. has imported three trial steel drums, now being used on the Mainland for bulk beer. The brewery is investigating how they stand up to cartage, and whether they affect the flavour of beer. The steel drums eventually may replace the barrels made of Tasmanian blackwood, because there is a shortage of wood and coopers. Here Mr. F. G. Natty, cellarman at…

The Warwick Farm Racecourse Hotel, Liverpool, where Bill Price worked as a cellarman.

BILL Price fitted perfectly the profile of a pub rouse-about or ‘useful’.

A drifter, he did most odd jobs around the pubs where he worked in return for boarding and lodgings. He did jobs like tapping beer kegs or barrels, to collecting glasses, cleaning toilets, and emptying ashtrays.

Bill worked in an unnamed…