New Rules for Licensed Victuallers

Waipawa Mail, Volume XVIII, Issue 3104, 26 July 1894, Page 3

New Rules for Licensed Victuallers

It is popularly supposed that when a good young man kicks over tho traces he kicks much more vigorously and outrageously than his unrogenerato brother. In similar fashion I suppose, the publi an, when lie manifests an unwonted hankering after righteousness, fails not to go the full pace. Hence those absurdly straitlaced rules ; and really, if rumour has got hold of the right story, tho Licensed Victuallers’ Association has gone this virtuous pp.oe with a vogeauco. For here, after all, are the rules, as told tome last night by Dame Rumor, iu the Land of Nod : 1. No female under tho age of fifty years shall servo in a bar. 2. No young man under the ago of twenty one years shall bo served with int xicatiug liquor unless ho brings b written assurance that liie mate rual paront knows bo is out. 3. Tea and coffee (at threepence per largo cup) shall bo procurable in ever}’ bar at all hours, and no person shall be served with intoxicating- liquor until the licensee has vainly emphasised the superior virtues of the non inebriating cup. 4. If tho applicant insists upon having his “ poison,” the said “ poison ” shall bo freely diluted with the tears of tho disappointed publican. 5 A copy of the Prohibitionist shall be voluntarily offered to every purchaser of intoxicating liquor. 6. Every publican shall send 10 per cent of liis gross weekly takings to the Benevolent Trustees, entering tho payment in his lodger as “ Conscience Money.” 7. The three-hooped pot shall have ton hoops ond it shall be folony to sell small beer. It it l>o suggested that tho final rulo is not quite in harmony with its predecessors, I can only reply that Dams Rumor is a strange person and the Land of Nod is a strange place.— Evening Star.