A PROTEST.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIX, Issue 133, 8 June 1906, Page 3

A PROTEST.

TO THE EDITOP.

Sir, —In* view of the very serious conditions imposed on the*. Licensed Victuallers of this district by our Licensing Committee, embodied in the facts that no less than eleven of the hotels have to be re-built, and very extensive renovations to be effected in other houses, and without wishing to iirply that malice is the moving impulse, I think it right to point out that the result of these drastic conditions will have all the effects of virulence, and must produce in the minds of the victims of the conditions imposed, the opinion that they are being dealt with in a most intolerant manner. In view of the fact that in the near future the electors may prohibit all licenses being issued, the holdirs of which, in that event, must suffer very great loss, the Committee might have exercised more discretion by merely insisting on the hotels being kept in a clean, healthy, and habitable condition. This would have served all the purposes for which police inspection is exercised.—l am, etc., GEORGE TURNER, ■ St. Andrew's, Blenheim. June 7th, 1906.