CORRESPONDENCE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2298, 17 September 1908, Page 1

CORRESPONDENCE.

[Correspondence on public mutters is welcomed at fill times, but it must bo distinctly understood that this journal is in no way associated with the opinions of its correspondents.J NO-LICENSE. [To rim Editor.] Sir, —I should' be pleased it you would correct an error that crept into my letter which appeared yesterday. No doubt this is duo to the operator, who lum substituted the word “she” for “he,” which makes all the difference, and the paragraph should read, “His anxiety to bowl out Miss Hughes after she lias left the district can lie excused, because it,is part of the ethics of the trade ‘ho’ represents.” —I am, etc., “FAIR. FLAY.” Gisborne, .Sept. Hi. [To Tim Editor.] Sir, —In your issue of the 12th, “Now Zealander” doubts tile '.accuracy of the statement in my letter of the Util as to the quantity of liquor consumed in Ashburton, under no-lic-ense. In order to establish the truth of that statement I have gone to sumo trouble to ascertain the true official position, which is as follows: The Licensing Act Amendment Act, 1904 , roads thus: (a) Every person who gives any order . . . for any liquor.intended to be sent or taken into any no-l ionise district shall notify tho person to whom tho order is given that the liquor is intended to be sent or taken; (b) every 'person who sells any‘ liquor in compliance with such order . . . shall furnish to the clerk of the Alagistrate’s Court a statement showing the nature and quantity of the (liquor, and the name and address of the person ordering tho same. In accordance with the above section of tho Act, a return was laid before Parliament some three weeks ago, in which the cleric of the Magistrate's Court, Ashburton:, shows that there has gone into that district in accordance with Jaw and under no-license 102,9794 gallons of beer and stout, 3302 bottles and - 8253 cases of spirits, 3 bottles and 535 cases of wine. This does not- include the liquor supplied by the sly-grog shop, or surreptitiously taken in bv travellers and others. If “Now Zealander” cares to challenge the. above statement let him put fliis money up. Aly contention is hereby proved,' that Ashburton is as drunken to-day under no-lieense as ever it was under license..—l am, etc., , “BRITISHER.” Gisborne, Sept. 10.