IN GREY LYNN.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XIV, Issue 823, 14 December 1905, Page 24

IN GREY LYNN.

There is possibly no other electorate in the colony that would show up the senseless folly of prohibition better than that of Grey Lynn. Now that a no-li-cense vote has decreed that Grey Lynn shall go dry, we will have during the next three years every opportunity of studying the question from very many aspects at our very doors. Beyond the closing of one very old licensed house, and one which has been in the occupancy of one family for about twenty years, the desire for the removal of the public bar has achieved little or nothing, as there are two other hotels but a short distance away from the one that has

been voted out. The residents in Jie immediate neighbourhood of the latter will suffer no inconvenience of procuring supplies beyond that of having to walk a few yards further to satisfy their requirements. The people who will really *e)i the pinch and inconvenience of prohibition are those who are living in the more remote parts of the electorate. No doubt a number of these inhabitants have in tne past been in the habit of procuring their supplies in a perfectly free manner as required. Now that they will be faced with many legal restrictions, which wi’.i have to be complied with or a course of enforced prohibition will have to be digested. From the evidence of figures in some of the Southern electorates, it will only require three years of prohibition in Grey Lynn to cause a majority of its m habitants to eagerly await the next licensing poll, so that they may effect a restoration of licenses. Not that many of them require the re-opening of the hotel about to be closed, as it is many miles distant from some parts of the

electorate, but simpfy to pla;e Themselves once more in a licensed district with its privileges and freedom.