MATTERS POLITICAL.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 41, 16 August 1895, Page 2

MATTERS POLITICAL.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. • Sir,— l could not get in all I wanted to say in my last letter, so will have some more to say about tho Liberal (save the mark) Government. If. the present Parliament would like to do some good during the last year of their term, they should repeal some of the troublesome Acts such as the Bhop Hours, and leave the shopkeepers and their assistants alone, as free men, to arrange their own affairs, and not drag them before a magistrate and fine them if a shop is kept open". Another thing is this eternal wrangling and agitation about Prohibition that costs the country so much (for the benefit of a few ogitators) in harrassing tho hotelkeepers, the police, and everybody else. I say people want their beer or whiskey. I take a glass of beer myself when I can afford it— which is only sometimes, and I don't care if the Emperor of Russia is looking at me when I drink it. We should bave our own distilleries and* not import all our spirits, so that the money could be kept in the country. Extra, labor would be employed, the farmers could grow all the barley required and get good prices for it, while we would have good, cheap beer and whiskey. When I next vote for a member of parliament he will bo a man who has always done his best for the settlers in the past, which is a guarantee as to what he would try to do anyway in the future. I am, etc., Fishmonger.