HOTEL LICENSES.
To the Editor. —There is a great talk just now about the surrounding the licensing system, but, to mind, there is a clear way of getting out pf them all by granting licenses to all applicants of respectability so long as the accommodation is good. There is no disguising the fact that where there are no hotels in a district sly-grog selling reigns supreme, and that is a thousand times worse than the legitimate trade. Wives and mothers have been ruined by it. The srink supplied in these places is almost invariably wretchedly bad. Insist strongly upon first-class accommodation and good .character, and there is no danger of haying top ryany hotels, because the evil would soon cure itself, as hotelkeepers are not more philanthropic tfcan other people, and consequently when hotelkeeping would not pay they would try something else. Meanwhile, the public would reap the benefit of wholesome competition for good accommodation and good drinks.—l am, &0., A Ratepayer, Dunedin, December 5,
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Evening Star, Issue 3678, 5 December 1874, Page 2
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165HOTEL LICENSES. Evening Star, Issue 3678, 5 December 1874, Page 2
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