SUNDAY TRADING.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIII, Issue 10663, 25 May 1895, Page 3

SUNDAY TRADING.

TO THE EDITOB. Sib,—We need not be sorry that on information has been laid against publicans, for by such moans public opinion will the sooner decide as to whether it is wise to legislate on the question, and if go, whether such laws shall be kept, and whose duty it is to see them earned out. At present it is a farce. We pay oar legislators to make laws, and they see them wilfully violated, and the supposed administrators of the law wink at its violation, setting onr law-givers at defiance, and making na a by-word to all com-mon-sense people. As one I protest against its continuance. All law must be respected

until its abrogation, and he who advocates disobedience is a traitor to the Constitution. To-enfofce the present law regarding the puhliohoueas, I would suggest that a publican be compelled to register the names of all persons who are served with liquor during prohibited hours; any person who is not a'traveller, giving a false name to pay a double penalty; any local resident found on the publican’s premises during such hours without sufficient reason shall be deemed to be illegally thereon, and shall be fined accordingly. Such drastic measures would require no informers to put down the evil if the police did their duty.—l am, &c., VINDEY.