WHY NOT REFORM NOW ?

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 29, 3 August 1927, Page 8

WHY NOT REFORM NOW ?

(To the Editor.)

Sir,—One truly wonders at seeine so many deputations to the Government oa the liquor business whether we have iv this community one single man in politics or otherwise who will say exactly what he thinks. Now, any common-sense individual who enters any hotel in Wellington is struck by the fact that they either want W°w r „° r m? re bar accommodation. What I really can't make out is what the licensing reformers are going to reform. Surdy the power must be here now to ds the reforming, which is certainly neede* very badly, especially in Wellington. I want to point out some improvements that could well be carried out right now, without waiting to know whether the New Zealand people are foolish- enough to banish themselves from, the old British custom of^ having one when one feels like one ihe promts are hereunder:—(l) What is to Prevent great majority of bars in the hotels being, as clean and as inviting as perhaps one or two in the city? f>) Why should not ttfe men bar attendants wear white coats like even the foreign waiters use in their own restaurants' (3) i? L™ ever seen the stiU water they wash their glasses with in the Wellington! hotels, or noticed the various uses the towels for wiping glasses are put to? (4) Surely they could have decent . counters to serve the drinks on, instead'of the old 40-year-old lino, they have on most of them. (5) It would not be bo bad if they even brought the drinking conditions inline with Auckland, and they are bad enough •/hen compared with another Dominion not so very far away. Finally I personally feel safer in London, wherei they close at any old time up to midnight, than in New Zealand and Australia, where' they close at 6 p.m.; that is if I had to walk through any doubtful. streets.—l am," etc., '

MAN EST THE STREET.