"HOW TO STOP THE PROGRESS OF NO-LICENSE.

Evening Star, Issue 13000, 20 December 1906, Page 2

"HOW TO STOP THE PROGRESS OF NO-LICENSE.

TO TDK BDITOU. Sir,—Yoar conespoitdeflt "A.M.D.," in Lis eominuni catkin on Saturday under the abovo heading, appears to have taken v. sudden notion iuto hU head thai- publican* aro a v\zah of people who -will fleece all and sundry into spending on tlieir own account and shorn - inar fcr "others until the wish of the> pnbh-

can is gratified. I think I have travelled as mnch as the ordinary man, and with legard to the publicans of this colony I-must sav that, taken on the whole, I bavo found tjiem as respectable, and honest a class as any other people in business. I have noticed a great many persons -who -will patronise a hotel for accommodation, bravely stating that they do not believo in board-ing-hotLses,. as the liberty is not so great, and will expect the best room in tho house, piano, newspapers, etc., urgently, and in somo cases disappear without settling their account, and at the same time vote- No-license whenever the chance occurs, through sheer stubbornness. I think, if 't A.M.D." will have a good look through tho hotels, and then give us tho facts, his report will be altogether different. He appears to bo given to a little bit of wandering, and on reflection mav acknowledge that things arc not nearly so had as he wauld liko to have led people to believe.—l am, etc., Travei.it.Ji. December 19.