ANOTHER MAYOR'S OPINION.
; . The following testimony given by Mr J. T. Burrell mayor of Tapanui, appeared in the Egmont Star : — " Closing the bars has most undoubtedly beneficially affected the sobriety and peace and quietness of the district. The volume of trade is greater. My own business has gradually increased, bad debts are less numerous and business generally is oh a sounder footing all through. The statement that closing the bars has produced a flood of domestic drinking and drunkenness, as is alleged by liquor men is a liable on our district. Those that get drunk now are those who got drunk before nolicense was carried. Ido not know of one case, where the habit has been •formed since. No-license has, I believe, come to Clutha to stay.
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Clutha Leader, Volume XXV, Issue 1309, 23 June 1899, Page 2
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127ANOTHER MAYOR'S OPINION. Clutha Leader, Volume XXV, Issue 1309, 23 June 1899, Page 2
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