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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXIV, Issue 7690, 6 December 1899, Page 3

A FACT IHAT CANNOT BE CONtDRADICTED. "gLECBIORS OP OAMARU! CONSIDER {THIS BEFORE YOU VOTE. Oamaru, December 2, 1899. Mbssbs Wish and Hanging,— Gentlemen, —I am in receipt of yours of to-day, and in reply I beg to state : (1) She rent I received for the Northern Hotel, when licensed, was, at first, L3OO per annum, and latterly L2OO, the tenant in each case paying all rates. The rent now is 30s per week, out of which 1 have to pay about Ll6 per annum. (2) The rates for the same hotel when licensed were from about L 75 to LSO per annum ; now, about Ll6. (3) I estimate my loss through the license being taken from the Northern Hotel at quite L2OOO. Yours faithfully, M. J, BAKER. TO THE RATEPAYERS, FN VIEW of the Forthcoming Local Option Vote, and following the example of the late mayor (Mr Aitken) I deem it my duty, and with the approval of Eight Members of my Council, to place before you the following statement prepared by the Town Clerk showing the loss to the revenue of the Borough if Prohibition is carried in Oamaru:— EEFECT OP NO LICENSE ON BOROUGH REVENUE. £ s d Licenses of II Publicans at L 45 495 0 0 „ „ 3 Bottle at L4O .... 120 0 0 ~ ~ 2 Wholesale at L2O 40 0 0 Conditional, estimated at ... 17 0 0

Loss of License Revenue £672 0 0 Loss in rates owing to depreciation in values of hotels after loss of licenses (calculated on basis of loss experienced in connection with other hotels from which licenses have been withdrawn) ... 179 13 1 Loss in connection with gas revenue, estimated at 120 0 0 Loss in Government subsidy on rates ... .„ ... 8 6 11 Annual loss .„. £9BO 0 0 Requiring an extra rate of nearly in the £ on annual valuation to restore above loss on revenue £9BO 0 0 (The above is not compiled from what I THINK on thequestion buta plain statement of facts which any ratepaper can verify by reference to the Council's books. J. M. BROWN, Mayor. QUERY. WHO Paid the £3OO Rent of the Northern Hotel when drink was sold there 1 ANSWER. WHY, of course, Those who Spent their Money over the Bar in That Place. MORAL. Vote "No License," and the Whole Community will be better off, by keeping the Money now Spent over the Bars, or spending it in other ways, and so helping general trade. NOTE.— A Large STORE in Syne Street, said to have Cost £2700, waa sold by Public auction for £9S. This Was Not a Licensed Hotel. How was it that this £2602 were lost 1 Clearly becanse the Store was Not Needed, as was Exactly the Case with the Northern Hotel. TO FLOCK: OWNERS, BUTCHERS, ETC. THE HAVING acquired the Premises on which Messrs Finlinson and Co. so long carried on Extensive Operations, will COMMENCE BUSINKSS on Ist NOVEMBER under the Experienced Management of Mr Boaden.

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