THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC IN DUNEDIN.

Evening Star, Issue 3459, 24 March 1874, Page 3

THE LIQUOR TR AFFIC IN DUNEDIN.

.HT7I/-J r IJo the Editor. clß,—The following is an., list of applications for liquorlicenses in thu Me distributed as ? :bs 1W b ?f* ' I;oi :,!n; - ul, '-ptiWl<ifths\ ;: BbttlsJ ,o «•» y* .lVis r ra.-r»gr.ivv;:) *v,| B)3 4 i f<S'i+Beu’?P7ard !:^<is-.*i‘! l- •d-*nl*r. 21 u a pM'Ov.’'! I*ithWard .-.g roi -sncuJjbJ*’ f ovi^rtge.-to)!^ ,>1 Qrdn Maitland sjfeot -j.£ 2 ft- j Stafford street - 6 ? «{\|r '■' i>^P^nc'eil^, e'et f ' A 7 W&roVu.T % ? High street 4 0 ,' i 'Ra.ttriy.st*eetT -ii iaorfi/O) 2 Maolaggan street 8 3 ErownVstffeieit.'” "XT 1 0 Manse street - . 2 0 -■ 0 Y. J Stuart r st»et7;, - ,V? 'ft |f Russell street - 1 • 7/>! ;l ®hSSeci/ rept: " , Elm-row 1 o . 1 f’r. -Nb^-i^Hanover-strest, „l£ ulriAww ) 0 !T . u r *f 6oJ nflE ; it> * w, l wi jfjc oi ~ -y 92 ■* That is, QiJuhcdin for the retail, sale of, intoxicating liquors: lhTB7l tffe population Of the-’electoral Dunedin wa5,514^,804, -being an the returns of. 1867 of 2,080. If we allow (bh doffWed/sidee:l r population now will be, say, 10,000 (n 1871 those under;flfteeb),y eats;< og numbered 6,449, or about 43.5 per cent, of the whole. The like proportion.- iOiGOO—our present sathat, provided the licensea applxtd for art all granted, Jfnj Dunedin t licensed retail grog-shop for leas than everj <% our children, or one f§r| less than every &£ over 15 years of aga.,; Or if the publicans and wttfo tbeD we will one publicau’s. license for everv 208, and ol the entire poptiiationi 'or oiic 'for every 116 and 233 of ali:over <l6 yeaip:of:age. ’ signify in the-, way ol expenditure,. Let me try to foVm'.ah approximate idea.~ to I 'will set- ‘dowh" f, the workim expense o.f gaqh hopsq. at |LIO a^wc^.gtbii of L 5 per _week at)_interes tpn flnpk i, LJS per yeektd ISh’lidnkes, or a total weekb jMt%O7O reali?ed‘m /.'uhedin as profitbn^tlb rCta^'iikfehrgrog.'° A llbWiug V &im*to |t| ■pfcpildr !, dff thh shows art- iekhenditiireWDuhliain annpmj f, e|iiftii Wrf M per yeech,' pri : say; : L2jO>‘ W- pfer annum f6 .every one of bhr pppmatibn over 15 years' 6 age.r-Jsttf,Ac;; 1 y-N 4 > •fc';-u;.. 'A March 23:' * - J,j ' ' :t 1