The Licensed Trade

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 13, 11 October 1943, Page 4

The Licensed Trade

Sir, —The notice of every member of the Royal Commission ought to be governed by their willingness and desire to try and find practical solutions to the many and varied complicated aspects, of the liquor problem. In the last British Royal Commission (1932) the chairman of the Brewers’ Society signed the majority report, although two other trade representatives signed a minority report (total signatories three). In the cafee of that inquiry the personnel numbered 18. and. was widely representative, and this is as it ought to be. . . Your correspondent is not right when he says that “the alliance representatives would naturally be chosen to advance the views of the leaders of. that .body, many of whom hold that drinking is immoral and criminal.” Particularly, is he wrong on that last point. Drinking is illegal at a public dance, on a train, or in an aeroplane, and may be criminal while in charge of a plane or driving a car, etc. Excessive drinking may be immoral, but your correspondent is not right in his sweeping statement regarding leaders of the alliance. claiming that drinking is immoral and criminal. —I am, etc. H. W. MILNER, General Superintendent, New Zealand Alliance. ■Wellington, October 8.