LUXURIES NOT NECESSITIES.
f ;: ' (To-the ; Editor;) . ■ j' ~ Sir, —At- present 'there is a.great deal f;\ '.of talk about closing the hotels early. [.:■ -Wine, beer,-. - and spirits arc luxuries. £. . They, are not .necessary .. for .anyone. £ . Have any of those people iviib spend money in an hotel ever thought that it ,'y ■ is their sixpences that are.keeping tho i brewers, wine and spirit merchants, and publicans in luxuries. They, are so j busy giving their sixpences to provide VVf all;, these people with plenty' of monoy r-': io spend oil good education for their j - children,-, smart homes and clothes, l- motor-cars, travel. and everything Ciiey !•■-. can want, that they have no time to think of their own families. They : must do without these tilings. How !. | often does one hear of a brewer, pubiiWwian, or wine and spirit man going 'iff bankrupt, or how often do we see their x.ames-figuring in the-paper as giviug p big donations to the Patriotic Funds. Mothers of men, sign the paper, and f force the Government to put all liotels h and clubs .under the Shpps and Offices . Act. —I am, etc., ! : • ONR WHO HAS HAD EVERYTHING GIVEN TO THE PUBLI- " CANS. ■ ■
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2709, 2 March 1916, Page 6
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196LUXURIES NOT NECESSITIES. Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2709, 2 March 1916, Page 6
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