WHY PEOPLE VOTE" NO LICENSE.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9938, 15 January 1900, Page 2

WHY PEOPLE VOTE" NO LICENSE.

T3 THE SDITOH. ' . ' i', <•"■ Sir, —We were on a cycling tour dur~i' ing the Christmas holidays, and whe'n.^ about two miles from Mauga'wdka' raji v' into a shower of rain, wlvich continued *-£j all the way to the townßhip'/ (We.werol^ glad to see tho only hotel there aiaLput^up at it. We did a small -pieced traded' at the bar,and then asked the.jiomppusfs 1111 * 1 individual in charge if we might haye »'"»" fire to dry our ccfets by. 'To our.aßtp'ji-r''s ishment, this-was refused us, altfyoitglib'; just as we entered the same gentleinai^*" had been, warming the tail of hVeoatTafc >'j a cosy fire in a room off the bar.'. We?' then suggested that we might use thWXj' kitchen fire after dinner was disposed of,*and were met by tho reply that the cooled 1 would pour boiling water on us if \?v;^ entered his domain. In sheer disgust'}-' we sought ji boardinghouse- further up ' tho road, and we can recommend cyclists, v and others stranded in Mangaweka'to-do? 1 V likowisc. The proprietrsss^Mrs Bowie, -■' at ouco put our wet garments' before tha' - kitchen fire without demur, although^ dinner was just about to be served. Wa C think that, m the interests of tlie public, V xhe licensee of tho Langhanr HbfeU Bhould be warned by his Licensing Comnuttee that he holds his license subject to certain duties to tho public, one of* which duties we think in our case lie ' failed to perform. —We are, etc., J. D. W. M'BETH J. A. BURNETT i C. L. DUIGAN. • ""