HOTEL EARLY CLOSING.

North Otago Times, Volume CIV, Issue 13656, 26 August 1916, Page 7

HOTEL EARLY CLOSING.

PUBLICAN PROTESTS, "FACED WITH RUIN." ' (Po/ Cable —Press Association—Copyright.) - • SYDNEY, August-25. The holelkccpers told - the Hon, W. A. Holmau, Premier of New South Wales, that'owing to six o'clock closing, unless some definite and positive relief ( was granted, the 1 publican was faced with ruin, and would be driven to the wall. The community failed to realise that the brunt 'of the position brought about'by the development of 'public opinion'would: fall upon tlio mere distributors of liquor. The cutting down of business hours had seriously affected the volume of business and decreased bar takings. For Chronic Chest Complaints, Wood»' Great Peppermht Cure,