"TIED-HOUSE" SYSTEM.
COMMISSION OF INQUIRY WANTED. Ry Telegraph—Press Assocfation—ConjTieht Sydney, November 22. In tho Legislative Assembly, Mr. Minahan moved in favour of tho abolition of the "Hod-house" system. He asked Parliament to appoint a Royal Commission | to inquire on the subject, and declared that 00 per centum of the Sydney hotels were tied. Tho real ovil was that tho brewers would not accept payment of debts on hotel;. Ninety per centum of the hotelkeepers would settle with tho brewers if given tho opportunity. Other members enlarged on the growing evil of the system. Mr. Bruntnell declared that many of the hotels were tied for everything except tho sawdust on tho tloor. The debato was adjourned.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1293, 23 November 1911, Page 5
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