LICENSING CPMMITTEES.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7196, 23 June 1885, Page 3

LICENSING CPMMITTEES.

i Sis, — In your paper this morning I , read an account of a meeting of licensed t victuallers, wine and spirit merchants, . <fee, and that they resolved to send two • delegates to Wellington to further the r amendment of the disqualification ( clause by rendering members of total i abstinence societies ineligible to sit on licensing committees, total abstainers 1 being under sworn obligations. Now, i sir, t know of no society of total abstainers who swear in their members, nor did I ever hear of one doing such. For my part I look upon the society who has recourse to swearing as a bad society, and one I would not even countenance, much less become a member of. I don't think any true abstainer would look upon it as an honor to sit with brewers on any committee. They j would look on it rather as conferring honor on the brewers by having honest men condescending to work with them in the cause of right. It is a bad look out for any society or body of men when they have to state what is not true to etrengthen their cause, particularly when they know what they advance against their opponents is not true. — I am, &c, Grand Guard. June 19, 1875.