EARLY CLOSING.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14196, 7 June 1916, Page 5

EARLY CLOSING.

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Tlrf> lirpKJi- intci-ests iirs advertising lavishly. They claim that six o'clock closing will mean'a <i.roat increase f>i' sly-.^ro.n selling and iioir.o and iesnalo drinking. Travej^in- the argument chat the lr-ovcn-.ent is in liw inhrests of the soldiers, tiiey say: "Our soldiers, are represented as unable to keep sober. Ft is a libel on '-he Anza'-p."

Tlie "Worker" adv./ -.ste* six o'dofk closing, and«dec]ares liiat so hr r.s Labour* is oonoerued thero is 011J7 ono hour for dosing hotels —th» earLV-st.

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