SLAMINGTON AND BEER.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13332, 22 March 1911, Page 3

SLAMINGTON AND BEER.

ENGLISH PUBLIC-HOUSES MERE tiRiNKiNC Shops. LONDON,; March 19. By the,’ ihtf oductibn 6f the Hotel Improvement Bill, which is being presented to the Hoiise of Lords by Lord Lamington (formerly Governor of Queensland), it is hoped to establish a new order of things and improve publichonses generally. ■ Lord Lamington says ■ that the present'day public-houses are the curse of the English-nation. They axe merely drinking shops, and_he blames the judges for opposing any "improvements.