WHY- 8 O'CLOCK?

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3193, 18 September 1917, Page 6

WHY- 8 O'CLOCK?

(To tho Editor.)

Sir—Who line asked tho Government to fix on eight o'clock as the closnm hour for hotel bars? Some 177,000 people have petitioned for eix o clock, but so far as is known no one lias asked for eight o'clock. It would seem tli.it the Government have not considered what tho reenlt will be of eight o'clock clcsiuK At that hour the hote s will be turning out their drunk or halMjunk customers just as the picture ahowH, theatres, and other places ot «ntertaiinont are going in, to the utter anoyance of ladies and respectable peoplo. And then tbo eaid drunks taringjo other places to go to spend the evoliing, will flock into these places ot nuiusemont, making a nuisance of themselves ami disturbing tho audiences. Ladies m t even feel it not safo to go out a one Tα time when the streets are d sturbed by drunken men. Iu recomdx o'clock the Efliciencr Board no doubt considered this point out the Government, who cicnev Board, will not take then advice, and Lem to'bo blindly trying to tDect a compromise which will please nobod). Will you kindly insert this lotter'-I am > cto - SIX O'CLOCK.