SUNDAY TRADING.

Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 40, 16 August 1881, Page 3

SUNDAY TRADING.

TO THE EDITOR OP THE EVENING POST. Sir— Pome little time since wo heard a great noise from both Good Templars and publicans alike, respecting the new Licensing Bill, but I think while the various Acts of Parliament which regulate the drink traffic remain in force it would bo as well if the police were to see that they were conformed with, especially with regard to Sunday trading. I would suggest that the police should take a walk in the neighbourhood of Cuba-street on a Sunday morning, and I venture to assert they would have no difficulty in securing a case. Only last Sunday, as I and some friends were returning from Divine Service, tho side door of an hotel was oponed, and throe men camo out. and judging by tho stenoh that pervaded the atmosphero, and their style of gait, I am certain they bad been imbibing something stronger than ginger ale. Further, sir, should the said poiiceman be in plain clothes, and inolined to extend his peregrinations, he would find outside of another hotel anenterprißinglaudlord (whose patience and perseverance aro worthy of a better cause) who, from eariy morn until dusk, can be found upon the opposite Bide of the Btreet watching for the appeivranoo of the police, while, from the inside, the rattle of the till and tho voices of the drinkers may be heard, and men, and even women too, are continually Boen entering and retiring by the side door. Surely, sir, these astute and active officers at the head of onr police force pan devise some means or other to bring to justice those men who, in defiance of laws both human and divine, are continually and syetomatioally sotting themselves in opposition to the will of the people. I am, &c. R.H.D.