HOTEL HOURS
M.P. HFFFRT..e! TO ST'PPOP/r SIX O'CT,OCK CLOSING. By Telegraph—Prrss Association. Feildinj, August 27. A largo and .repiesentalive deputation of women met Mr. D. H. Guthrie, M.P.. and asked him to support six o'clock ' closing. Mi , . Guthrio replied that he fav- : oured nine a.m. to seven p.m. He said - that Sir James Allen favoured toniper- • ance, but if the hotels closed at six p.m. the military authorities would brinjj pressure to bear'for'a wet canteen at Trentham. Sir Jame3 Allen would sooner resign than grant that. The deputation asked in the alternative for a referendum, but Mr. Guthrie declined to alter ■- his mind.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3175, 28 August 1917, Page 6
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