LOST LICENSE AT DUNBACK.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13631, 28 June 1906, Page 8

LOST LICENSE AT DUNBACK.

to the inrroß. Sm,—At the time of the South African excitement, ran high in New ifc. land, and wo sent the best of our young men In the front to fight for King ami Nothing was too good for' them at till! time that they went away. and it through them that New Zealand was lifted from Iter former position. I'or our soldiers who lost, their lives in the war there is erected in l'almerston a beautiful monument in their memory. For one llirit fought bravely in tiio war, John Gilmour, ynu have taken away his aged mother's iioenso. winch was a. cniol thinj? to <lo in old age., Irad (hero been anything airiin4 her hot-el I would sav it was'right, but you have cone, only that jier hotel was a wooden one. Take this, all of vou, to your hearts as a lesson, and try to live and let live.—l am, etc., A Lover of Faikflat, Dunedin, June 23. TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—At the meeting of the Licensing C-orrimitteo in Palmcraton I sec Ciilmour's hotel license was refused because it was a, wooden building. I think this was rnnfair, as there was nothing against the proprietress, and I must venture to say this hotel was one of the best conducted in Otago. It did not make ar.y difference whether you drank or not, you wove all treated alike. This is not always the case. If you do not spend your money at the bar in torn® hotels you are treated very shabbily— at least that is my experience, and I have travelled a good <lnal. Whenever I left Dunedin to 20 to Dunbaek, with perhaps some mare friends. T. just font word we were coming, and a Uan was always waiting, at Pii.lmcrs.ton station for us, a? it was not always convenient for us to go the dav the train run to Dunbank. When we did got there we pot. provisions equal to any you would' set in ljmicdin, and it did not cost as miV.ch a-s it would in Dunedin. "What is more, the proprietress is a widow, whom at the time of tlm war sent her only son to ih<> front to fight for mtr King and country, and now t.he war is all over his aged mother is forgotten, and the license of her hotel taken from her. There is something I would like to Fav, and that is this: That [ have seen and heard her tell the men who wanted moro drink, "Now, volt no homo to your wife or parents, and don't spend any more inonev on drink, as vou have had quite enough." This is the kind of hotelkeeper that is wanted, but in this ease the one that lost her license. Trusting an abler pen than mine will take t.lie matter tip and try if the poor widow's license cannot be renewed.—l a.;n, etc., Frequent Traveller. Duntdin, June 25. SINGLE DESKS. TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—ln your issue of the 21st. inst. I see that the new school at Maori Hill is being furnished on the now system of single desks, while in the report, of the Education Board's meeting the Alexandra School Committee's application for single desks in t.lm ihiw classroom (now being built) is declined. It is plain that the "single desk" system is the style of the near future. When the Education Department, is building- a. room costing £500, why not furnish it in an up-to-date manner at mice? Another thing, what is the reason for the distinction made? Maori Hill applies for sinp-lc desks and the request is wanted, while Alexandra's application is declined. Now, Sir. to. my mind this looks like a glaring case of pitting town against country, to the country's detriment. Surely some of the members of (lie Education Board have the interests of the country schools at. heart. Hopiirg some abler pea than mine will take up the subject,—l am, etc.. . O.\K Interested. Alexandra, .Tune 23. [The oxuianation, we learn, is that the Education Board has decided to place the desks in the Maori Hill School by way of testing their efficient?, and when that is satisfactorily proved they will be introduced ihto other schools where the schools are. of suitable construction for the reception of the desks. Maori Ilill School is of suitable construction, and [or that reason was selected for the experiment. It may 1.0 that, in the future some schools will require such alterations to admit, of the use of the desks that the cost, will prohibit thsir introduction, but that is a. mailer for later consideration bv the board.—Ed. O.D.T.]