HOTEL HOURS
Sir, —Mr Early mentioned the Rev. Ewen Simpson’s statement, the Licensing Control Commission’s report, hotel hours, licensing polls, continuance and prohibition, and now he claims “irrelevance” because my reply hit both his topic and his herrings. His charges of “misrepresentation” and “deceptiveness” against Mr Simpson are unproven, indeed disproved by my first letter. Mr Early’s first letter inferred that the licensing poll is a choice between evils. This, on his admission, classed “continuance” as evil, and therefore undermined his claim that the 1949 referendum did not deal with evils. Classing prohibition as evil sometimes means drowning the voice of conscience. The clarity of the last two sentences of my letter caused Mr Early, to claim brevity, verbosity and irrelevance to hide his confusion. The sworn evidence of drinkers and their lawyers proves that beverage alcohol is an evil and therefore reduction of hotel hours to nil is the only righteous answer.—Yours, etc., C. D. ROSIE. September 26, 1952.
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Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26848, 29 September 1952, Page 10
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