Anti-Shouting Law
Sir,—I was interested in the question of the anti-shouting law. I well remember that this became law during the First World War when, incidentally, closing time was 10 p.m. If you entered a bar to drink with, say, two frinds, you always had ready the exact change to put on the counter. If you were having three beers, you put down three sixpences. This was supposed to prove to any inquiring policeman that each drinker had put down his own sixpence! If a florin was on the counter then obviously one of the three had shouted, and so broken the law. This law has not been repealed as far as I know.—Yours, etc., INTERESTED. October 4, 1968. [Our information is that the regulation was repealed in a comprehensive repeal of war-time regulations.— Ed., “The Press.”]
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31802, 5 October 1968, Page 12
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