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(TO TIIK EDITOR OF THE EUNSTAN TIMES.) Sir, —Knowing your readiness on all occasions to expose abuses I desire, through your open column, to bring under the no tico of your readers and the powers that be, one which is oftentimes charged to the in nocent, that is, the abuse of intoxicating liquors. The keen competition amongst storekeepers for patronage causes them to “ hand round the bottle ” to their customers, insisting on them to drink, and frequently more than is good for them, and thus making them incapable of taking carCof themselves, thus starting them off to the hotels. Poor Boniface is charged with being the cause when in reality the storekeeper—who, forsooth yclepts himself “ Wholesale Wine and Spirit Merchant,” is the one who ought to he blamed. Another phase of the nuisance is that of supplying drink (sometimes of the vilest character) at auction sales and in auction marts ; this, however, I look upon as a flagrant breach of the law, and should be forbidden. The inducements for people to drink, in all conscience, are frequent enough without these bye-means I have alluded to. 1 reckon the matter wants looking into, and that the blame that is now attached to the hotelkeepers for drunkenness should be settled on the right shoulders.—l a'fli, &c., ItEFORMpR. Vincent County.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 844, 21 June 1878, Page 3
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