A COMPARISON

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 64, 10 December 1918, Page 4

A COMPARISON

WHEN HOTELS WERE CLOSED AND NOW. The extraordinary number of charges of drunkenness that were before, the Magistrate yesterday impelled Inspector Marsack to direct the attention of ( the Magistrate to the position. He Mid: Joday eiglite'cn 'drunks' nave been dealt with, and one has been remanded. That is about double the number dealt with on Saturdav, and more than double that of the previous Jay, when seven drunks were dealt with. During the time the hotels were closed wc had two blank days and the charge sheet for the rest of the time averaged three cases per day and some of these cases wore due to'the drinking of methylated spirits. _It appears that the licensees are not taking the care they should in serving men with Honor. At the present time the police force is very much depleted through infmenm, and therefore, perhaps, have not been able to give the attention to the hotels flat wight be desirable, but that fact should make all decent-minded licensees take more trouble to see that their hotels were properly conducted."/ Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, R.M., remarked that the. number of eases was certainly too hrs-e. He bad bad.the idea th»t holelkpejjers and Prohibitionists were ab:=olutp]v opposed, but it almost p.i.ppnred as if thev wem in l<"<g>'e in givo every assistance' to hnve ProhiWon -earned t.hrou»hont the Dominion. "I have been nsfcomshed." remarked th» Magistrate, "dur'nij the 1a.4 few Oflys to see so runny drunken men in Hie town. Annnrently some *>f the hntelkeeper* «-ere tint nlivo to their own or tb"v would not np-rni'f so much 'lninkcn.ii.ws at a time like the present."