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Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 64, 17 November 1892, Page 2

We are glad to see that the Marton Mercury is doing good work in assisting to stamp out sly grog selling at Ohingaiti, by urging the establishment of a regularity licensed hotel, so that the liquor tramc there msiy be regulated by law. Already, says our contemporary, there is perhaps more grog sold on the sly than if it could be procured openly and honestly from a licensed house. At present tbe revenue is being robbed of money which, if paid for a license, could be well spent in road making, but it goes into the pockets of about as contemptible a class as can be found in the catalogue of law-breakers. The sly grog vendor is always a rogue, and sells the vilest poison a man can possibly drink. He injures the trade of honest hotel keepers while the latter have to bear the blame of the former's misdeeds. The only way to get rid of such scoundrels is to have a properly licensed house. Many of the first settlers will remember the amount of drunkenness which prevailed in Feilding when there was no licensed house. Compare that time with the present. Now we have good hotels, well managed by capable laudtords and land ladies, a case of druu-

kenness is of rare occurrence and then only when " a young man from the country" is accidently overcome by his potations.