NO-LICENSE AND ACCOMMODATION.
Sir, —In the "Herald'' of to-day, under the beading •"UunctLn crowded," a Timarii business man is credited with • a surprising statement : ""He wondered what Dunedin would be like at show times if the hotels were closed by no-license, when the accommodation was so insufficient wlule the hotels are there." This is very misleading. Any Timaru business man of average intelligence should have known that no-license does not close the hotels. It simply closes the "bar," by taking away the license to sell intoxicating drink. No-license leaves the hotel untouched otherwise. "When the "Land Commission" was touring t-hs colony a few years ago one of the Commissioners asked his fellow members where they had received the best accommodation —in license or no-license districts? Several members of the Commission were not total abstainers, but they all agreed that (comparing t-owns' of the same size") the accommodation was better in the no-License districts. This statement was published in the "Herald" at the time. This "want of accommodation" bogey need frighten no one. It has been "laid" long silica by the experience of no-license towns in this and other lands.—l am, etc.. T. STIXSOX. Timaru, 11th June, 1910.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14223, 14 June 1910, Page 6
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197NO-LICENSE AND ACCOMMODATION. Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14223, 14 June 1910, Page 6
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