LIQUOR POLL
Sir, —To those of us who married in the early 1900’s, and remember the wide-felt joy and thrill that filled our hearts when the hotel bars were compulsorily closed for evening business, the thought of the possibility of the reopening of evening bars fills us with consternation and dread. In the early 1900’s, in my teaching days, I used to visit the homes of my little pupils. It wa s tragic to learn of the unhappiness and poverty brought into many of those homes by the selfishness of the male parent. Men worked hard all day and then spent their evenings in the open bar. With the easy spending of money their homes were scanty provided for and their children’s future crippled. If the coming referendum restores open bars at night, it will be a black spot on the fair name of our country.—Yours, etc SHOCKED VOTER.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25735, 22 February 1949, Page 8
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