THE EARLIER CLOSING OF HOTELS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17114, 20 September 1917, Page 5

THE EARLIER CLOSING OF HOTELS.

Sib, —I see th,at to assist the Empire in '"-J its peril and to obtain a satisfactory peace" t' k Mr Massey and Sir J. Ward are prepared to ' '■' send men to the front, but not to deprivo a man of a drink after six o'clock of to inflict -,'} any. avoidable loss on the liquor trade! • As one of the unfortunates of the fit A 5 olass, from whom so much loss and ruioa- ~i tion m life, health, and fortune is not asked but demanded, I think I am justified in asking why there should be this disparity in J the Government's requirements. Wo con- 'f scripts are going to be none the more 1 loyal and to have the less morale if or having ,-* seen this, and I suggest for this very reason that the Government and people would be well advised to take a more honest and a bolder policy. A man is as valuable a bovo- .' > reign, or, surely, nearly so.—l am, efco., „; Sekxebity. .