LEVIN AND THE PROHIBITIONISTS’ INDISCRETION.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIII, Issue 10600, 8 March 1895, Page 3

LEVIN AND THE PROHIBITIONISTS’ INDISCRETION.

TO THE EDITOR.

Sib, Though not a labourer in the prohibitionist field, yet I must in every sense endorse all that your correspondent E. Taylor says in hia latter in your issue of March 4, The matter, as you yourself some few days ago have well said, has now assumed a colonial aspect and importance, and is nob merely local. A principle of the very highest importance is involved, and I hope and trust that the Government will bo true to its duty and responsibility, and that the Minister in charge will take care to ensure the sitting of the Stipendiary Magistrate at the Ofcaki Licensing Committee meeting on March 14. The matter is too important to dispense with that effioer’a attendance. A great and crowning principle is involved in this decision, and the Government having, as I believe they have, the best interests of workers at heart, and once having put its hand to the plough, should not falter. Mr Gully’s line should be simple justice and right as against oppression and grievous future wrong. The evil seed being once sown, who shall count the harvest ? I would like to ask any sensible man what result can be expected when a licensed house is dumped down opposite a newly - started Sccta farm.—l am, &c., HART.