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Sun (Christchurch), Volume 1, Issue 235, 7 November 1914, Page 4

THE FIRE IN LICHFIELD STREET BARGAINS EVERYWHERE I A GA T IH BARGAINS EVERYWHERE Note the Window Displays daily j L jt Jgl ii Note the Window Displays daily Of the Stocks saved will be in progress FROM TO-DAY, and continue until further notice, and every line is realised STOCKS. The following are the Stocks affected : CATHIE & CO. - Clothing H. F. EVANS & CO. - Drapery, Fancy Drapery, Mercery MERCER COY. LTD. - Millinery, Fancy Drapery G. A. FINDLAY & CO. LTD. - Mercery, Clothing 9 Limited o • VICTORIA SQUARE AND HIGH

Strike out the Top Line on each Taper [From'" Liverpool Post," August 18.] Several correspondents have suggested iu our columns carried out, —« the unquestioning loyalty vvith which the desirability of closing, or at any rate partially closing, it has been accepted, taken in conjunction with other rethe public-houses while the war tension continues. We strictions, show how readily the English people will fall are reminded that in South Africa during the Boer war, in with exceptional requirements in a time of emergency, and also last year at the time of the riots, liquor was A democratic form of modified martial law causes no either quite unobtainable or obtainable only for ashort resentment among the working classes." . time each day. The immediate result was that ordinary w , «hould not Liverpool attempfc-if it can be crime and street accidents ceased. Th.s corresponds with prov<jd neeessary or evcn desirable—what Newcastle has our own experience in Liverpool in the August, 1911, t i ms we n achiovedf In some parts of the eity abundant strikes, when an almost miraculous effect came from the Qvidence might, no doubt,-be collected of the evil results restriction of the hours for the sale of drink. It cannot of excess i ve drinking during the last two hours of the be said with any confidence that the conditions generally ]egal opell i ng time. We have heard, on the very best prevailing at the present time are comparable to either authoritV) of one instance concerning a public-house in of the cases we have quoted. All the same, there is & neighbourhood where soldiers are quartered. From really a considerable feeling among the public that no 9<30 to closing time it is pandemonium; and the harm could be done, and much good might ensue, from uurcstrictcd supplv of jj quor to the men is a source o£ the adoption of similar precautions in regard to licensed emM trouble to the offiecrs> p er h aps such eases will houses. The only objections we have seen may be dis- be " met by tho new Government Order which has. been regarded. They have borne on their face the minus- and the'provisions of which is—takable mark of inspired special pleading on behalf of ~,.,., 4 ,' v * f . IV / "the Trade"—taking, of course, the form of a vigorous defence of the right of the working man to his night "club." CURTAILING DRINKING HOURS The difficulty is that, so far as we know, the magistracy have no special powers under which at such a The liability to penal servitude for life for any person who gives or sells to any member of his' Majesty's force employed in the defence of any railway, dock, or harbour — even When he is off duty—any intoxicating liquor iviih intent to make him drunk. ..■'.■'■ But there must be many cases which it; does not meet. tracv have no special powers unaer wmen at such u . - . n«u,,y «i»i, uu °f™-" i Failing any direct action by the magistrates and the time thev can curtail drinking hours without the consent ,£ i. v * • ±. ntime Lut-.y i 4» ""i»" u b licensees, the most we can hobe for is that the public and co-operation -of the licensed victuallers; and if ."■ ' , l ~ . ■* . we may iudge from what has happened at St. Helens— » J . . ■> . , * •»""&;■ ll ~ , „**„,.wqt./1« a time like this of the loss of self-restraint, and, more where an early-dosing order was made and afterwards . > » ," , * * ... -.. M Mnvtu -i ;„ especially, the wickedness of any incitement of soldiers suspended because of the opposition of the licensed in- t j> •> 4 , , . .„ ~, ~ „„„ • „ ~. .._ of the King to indulgence m drink, teres'ts on the ground of illegality—there will be no *>■ b hurry to subordinate the public-house to the public in- TREATING TERRITORIALS terests iu this way. It is not so in Newcastle-on-Tyne. There a simple closing order by the licensing justices We are prepared to admit that, a great deal of what has been put in force, and a "Times" commissioner on a happens—particularly in regard to the baneful practice visit of enquiry and observation reports that of "treating" Territorials—is attributable to admira--7 7,,,,, „,.,.™„7,* ;« tho hahit*; tion and to'well-meant good-fellowship and hospitality. A transformation has been wrought in the nauitb ■• „. ■ ~ . . . ■-, ~:.<■■. ■* , . l , /, .. ~, . ~,..„ iimp , Irpr „<. mu( .j. In effect, it is a crime against the man who is treated of a community which at ordinary times Keeps mutu > ° _,, ■ , - - : - ■ , - ' , . , + i„„ „;+„ and the country that he serves. If it be meant to steel the same hours .as any other city. . . J ■ , „ . ■•■• ■ his courage in the tasks that he before him, let it be The most noticeable change, he says, is the sudden understood that Dutch courage, of: this sort, never of quiet which descends on the streets at nightfall. By 9.30 any practical use and always unwholesome, is especially the central thoroughfares are almost deserted. By 10 not needed in connection with such a war as the present. o'clock most of the working-class streets are in dark- There is so strong a spiritual stimulant in the cause ness- everybody is in bed. Every licensed house in for which our soldiers are fighting that spirituous stimuNewcastle has to be closed at 9 o'clock. Similar orders lant is entirely superfluous. Let everybody, soldiers and have been made for Gateshead, Jarrow, Sunderland, civilians,.call to their aid in these exceptional days that Wallsend, and Whitley Bay, and the movement will pro- steadfast sobriety and dignity, that courage>and restraint, bably soon be extended to all the coastward parts of which, as Mr Lloyd George has said, are the best bulwarks Northumberland and Durham. There is every indication to tho worst consequences of war. If British soldiers that the clubs will fall into line by refusing to sell doing battle for their country stand not in need of intoxicating liquor after 9 o'clock. "This," remarks the - Dutch courage, neither do those who are left behind to "Times" correspondent, "is an eminently common- watch and to wait and to pray stand in need of Dutch sense.regulation, and the ease with which it has been comfort. Strike out the Top Line on each Paper