THE POLICE AND THE SHOP. KEEPERS.

West Coast Times, 1 September 1866, Page 2

THE POLICE AND THE SHOP. KEEPERS.

(fa THE EDITOR OF THE WEST COAST JIMEB.) / Sib,— l was yesterday much .surprised at receiving notice from a policeman that , I must not hang boots outside of my own shop, within seven feet of the ground, and understand that other tradesmen have received similar notice. Now, I don't know w iat laws there may be upon the subject — *>ough it is quite proper that all thorougu n<reß should be kept free from obstruction — 55 u t i never before knew a government i r official, whoever he may be, to endeavor tv prevent tradesmen from exhibiting their Wires where they would ' cause no inconvenierce to the public. Even in the most crowded streets of London — f such as Cheapside, CornliiU, &c— where * - the traffic is too great to allow ' ' bility of good? hanging outsiu frames containing artificial teeth, p, graph's, shipping bills, &c, may be st .outside the doors to denote the businwi*!.-^ earned on within ; and in the more quiet') M streets, and even the broader parts of Hol4 - born and Oxford streets, various goods are j expostd along the outside ; and I have not' " ; only observed the practfcegeneral throut. i« / out Great Britain, but <Ja all other Darts ■■> that I have been. ! Now in a new placed like Hokitika, where the population is constantly • -,-, > Ing, hundreds of people pass ' ' know' not whence to supply t) out from seeing the different d >f goods exposed to view, and \ radesmen should unite to endei stop to such meddling interfe obody can say that the traffic is ipecially in the broad part-^ 1 sreet north, that the hjj^ b,ots or other small arti» o/n house can interfere wit. ccc of passers by. Possibly, as the person who & o^ers is not a tradesman, he raw tht the town looks better on &nssP ' ' an therefore wish to make all ottf "- | appar similar. " r ( ~ J. I am, &c, - , " ' : St,b I?vell r street north, Hok. August 31, 1866.