A LICENSED HOUSE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3150, 2 August 1881, Page 2

A LICENSED HOUSE.

[ To the Editor of the DAILY TEtEGUATH.] Sir —It is five or six years ago since I came through the Seventy.mile Bush, part of the way on foot. One night in particular, when the welcome light at Tahoraite accommodation house came in view, it would require a great deal of Good Templar logic to convince me that public-bouses were in auy shape undesirable, when properly conducted. Since then other public-houses have sprung up nearer to Napier than the one above mentioned, and it is to the proprietor of one of these tbat I would, through the medium of your valued paper, offer the following few words of friendly counsel. I will do it in such a way, that the public, with respect to the house and the owner, will be left in ignorance this time. In the first place I would remind you, my worthy friend, that a public-house is built for man, not man for the public-house. When travellers go to your house, recollect that it is their temporary home, and that they must be supplied with meals, provided they have the money to pay for them. Conduct your bouse in such a way as no respectable female or married couple will hesitate to fctop a night. Whenever a teetotaller buys a bottle of painkiller at your store, aud tenders half-a-erown in payment for same, do not tafce bim into

the midst of a lot of loafers on purpose to hear them comment on his meanness in taking tbe sixpence change out of the house. Do not take a mean advantage of an impoverished Government that cannot afford to station a constable in an out of the way place like your*-. Make it a rule that dancing and fighting must te'ease at twelve o'clock precisely on Saturday nights. And last but not least, my energetic acquaintance, do not for a moment suppose that because one rotten Licensing Bench in Hawke's Bay granted a license in opposition to the wishes of the people, it is of sufficient weight to justify you in setting at nought the feelings of those with whom it is necessary you should at times come in contact.—l am> &c> X. August Ist, 1881.