ANTI-SHOUTING
9 BAR TRADIS RECOVERS SLIGHTLY Closing timo on Saturday night found some of tho city publicans in a rather happier mood than they had been a week or a fortnight previously. Their bar trade had shown a measure of recovery xrom tho severe slump brought about by the operation of the "antishouting" regulation, and the survey of their returns for tho week led them to believe that their worst anticipations wero not going to he realised after all. A cheerful tone was not to be discovered everywhere, but a Dominion reporter who put questions to the licensees of several hotels found that a substantial improvement in tlio bar trade, as compared with the conditions prevailing immediately after the issue of tho War Regulations, was generally admitted. "My Saturday night trade has been very good," said one licensee. "Wo havo been busy all tho evening, and 'the amount of money taken over the counters indicates that people are getting accustomed to the new conditions. Tho number of drinks sold certainly has not been as great as it would have been under the old conditions, and obviously tliero is no chance of all the lost ground being recovered. 'Shouting' accounted for a great deal of the bar trade. But men are coming back into the bars, an# they are getting over the feeling of strangeness about having a drink together without treating ona another." Another licensee said that the bar trade certainly bad shown some recovery, but not enough to make the position of the publicans at all comfortable. The fact was that the conditions of the trade—rents, salaries, and so forth —had been based upon a certain volume of business in the bars, and tho new regulation had changed those conditions materially, without providing any relief for the persons most directly affocted. "It is too early to form exact opinions about the effect of the change," said the licensee. "We must gtve people a month or two to adjust themselvos to the present situation, and then wo will be able to judge what our permanent loss is going to be."
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2879, 18 September 1916, Page 6
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350ANTI-SHOUTING Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2879, 18 September 1916, Page 6
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