THE COUNCIL AND SIX O'CLOCK CLOSING

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 139, 9 December 1918, Page 3

THE COUNCIL AND SIX O'CLOCK CLOSING

TO TBI EDITOR. ' Sir, — i have read your interesting report of the debate in the Upper House on the Liquor Bill, and particularly that part of it which deals with six o'clock closing. Everyone knows— who knows anything at all about the legislative enactments of this country—that the Act j of last session which was passed on the | 27th October, making provision for 6 o'clock closing was a war measure only, and so honourable have Legislative Councillors become that they, have denounced this "scrap of paper" with, as. much German-like indifference as if their own legislative enactments had had no existence. Such is the influence of bad examples upon all men, that even those who pride themselves on their own rectitude are ready to tear to pieces the scrap of paper bearing their own bond. | The Legislative Council passed' an Act 'entitled The Sale of Liquor Restrictions in 1917, which included this clanse :—

"This Act shall remain in force during the continuance of the present war with Germany and for six months thereafter and no longer." Now at the first opportunity members of Parliament, membjprs of the Legislaf. tive Council, repudiate their honourable undertaking. If members of Parliament set such examples to the whole of the community, what may we' expect from the ordinary and common manhood of the country?—l am, etc., POLITICUS.