THE RE-ACTION.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XIV, Issue 833, 22 February 1906, Page 23

THE RE-ACTION.

I'hat the feeling of you dont know where you are or going to be, which pervaded a large section of the Trade prior to the local option poll, has now departed is evidenced by the many changes which are taking place among the licensees and owners of hotels. Business men from other parts of the colony are gravitating to the North, and hotels are changing hands at most satisfactory prices. No better guide can be sought to point out that confidence in the public is fully restored. Until last poll an uncertain, uncomfortable feeling had arisen that the general public held aloof or were certainly lukewarm in their support of hotel businesses. The returns from all over the colony have dispelled that feeling, and we may take it that the great army of moderates have allowed the immoderate shut-up-everything crowd to go as far as they intend they should, and that the deciding issues are no longer between two parties --that is, the Trade and the immoderates —but that the moderates will in the future take a hand in the game.