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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 133, 2 May 1891, Page 2

It is well known that we have frequently said that more good might be done by total abstainers working up the law directed against adulteration, than in tryto obtain prohibition-. Not long since we (Napier News) published ideas on this head from several correspondents-, and also ventured on a series of notes on the same subject. The opinion then expressed is shared by many, and especially by an English Bishop who, speaking on the subject the other day, declared that it had occurred to him that the best service that he could render the cause would be to start a public house on sound principles, namely^ to sell everything at the lowest remunerative price, consistent with quality and freedom from adulteration. Perhaps he was not far wrong, and it may yet be found, after all, that the true solution of the difficulty may be rather in the gradual extinction of the existing monopoly whereby good, bad, and indifferent articles are sold afc the same price, than by essaying to abolish it at one blow." There is solid common sense in this idea so far, but it would be an innovation in the trade to see a " pub " run by a Bishop, even if he did sell liquor pure and undenled-.