“NO-TREATING” LAW
LONDON, October 11. The London “ no-treating’’ law was brought into force on Monday, affecting 7000 hotels and 3000 ‘ ofT'-licensed houses. Innumerable roses were made by the public to defeat the new order. Being liable to a penalty of £IOO, or six months’ imprisonment, the hotelkeepers adhered to a strict reading of the regulation, buk most of the people were disposed to treat the matter as a joke, and customers evaded the intention of the order by exchanging- money on entering and leaving the bars. Treating being allow'ed with meals, there was hopeless disagreement at the lunch bars as to whether sandwiches and bread and cheese constituted a meal. It is believed that the regulation w ill prove effective, inasmuch as it will minimise the treating of soldiers.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3214, 20 October 1915, Page 25
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