SUNDAY TRADING.

Evening Post, Volume LII, Issue 163, 1 December 1896, Page 2

SUNDAY TRADING.

TO THE EDITOE. Sin— Yesterday was Sunday, the day on which our 'Motels' are all supposed to he closed to all but travellers; Whilst passing up TaranakUstreet yesterday about 4 o'clock, the time when the scholars of the Wesleyan Sabbath School were coming out of school, I was disgusted to. see three drunken men rolling and staggering along — men who I can say for a fact are not travellers but respectable citizens. I say respectable, because they themselves say thoy^ are, respectable. They had not gone very far from the Suriday School when they tried to gain admittance to another public-house^ but) of course' they were refused — yes, but* only while several of the teachers from the school were passing, fpr they had no soouer passed by than the drunks were admitted. Sirj I ask what are we to do with licensees who carry on in this way? What a grand example to the scholars of the school ! Inform the police, did you say, and have their license endorsed? Why, sir, you may just as well inform Mi. Seddon himself. • Perhaps he would endorse their license. The Sunday trading carried on in our midst is a disgrace to any respectable city. Why don't our Licensing Committee step in and stop it ? I should think that with the Eev. Van Staveren on that Committee there would not be a licensee who would dare to sell a drop of the filthy stuff on the Sabbath day. Perhaps the majority of the Licensing Committee are blind, or do they belong to that grand organisation, the Liberal League? How can we remedy it? We may do better when we get an honest Licensing Committee, or perhaps we can do better by sweeping*it away altogether. May we use the vote God has entrusted to us in the right way, and kill what we cannot cure, so that it will not injure the rising generation. By inserting the above, so .that your numerous readers may see what to do, you i will greatly oblige . One of the Coming Generation, Dei Gratia. Adelaide-road, 80th November, 1896. Pork sausagos, 6d per lb, made from grain-fed pork ; order early. Wardell Bros, and Co., £1, Willis-street.— Ad VT.