RE BILLIARD SALOONS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3778, 21 December 1907, Page 3

RE BILLIARD SALOONS.

( To THii ® ditok -) Rc your sub-leader of “ jVCjbecember 19th, headed “ Billiaro i r ou state that you can.congratulate those councillors and supported the !|W‘ Posing from xo p.m! to n p.m. fairness to Councillors FraukShad bolt, Coley, Wilson and lli'Umyself, who supported the amendment, I should like to point out, for the intonnation of the rateJ/^payers,'that n o’clock has always * ’'■ bcefl the hour of closing, aud_ as v- -there were no complaints against »the proprietors, all the saloons V . ,heing well conducted, we, in fair--1 ness to the proprietors, did not i change the hour of closing, but ' ’ carried the amendment “closing . hour as usual.” Thanking you . - ’ for inserting this explanation. —I * am etc., George Gray. ' ' Sir, —After perusing your article a Hard saloons and noticing ommeuts re certain councilsupport of an amendment, entirely one-sided, so I’ll a few on the other side, just Dinparison. One councillor said “be failed to see why hotels and billiard saloons should differentiate and that hotels were / charged for a license.” But . is this license merely for billiards, V (note the comparison) ; another ‘ councillor, “ make it merely a joke I think. Yet another, \ “make it £ 2.” As if Foxton ’ 1 ’ saloons should be taxed more than ' ■ ■any other town in the Dominion. In this particular line, also that the “labourer’s needed rest,” eviJ/ dently scripture from the bee farm, no enjoyment or recreation for tbe c J working class. Fnough quota*/'tion. Now about the article itself v " ■ I must say it is erroneous and mis- •• ‘ - leading, as it stated that it could - ■’ not congratulate tbe councillors b whp supported the amendment, altering the time from xoto 11 w p.df There was no such atneud- ' mehL so the reporter must have when the amendment put. The councillors who : ■ voted for the amendment voted I • believe for the hour of closing to remain as it was. I .believe the : - police asked that the hour of clos- ' iug be reduced, but whether it be 10 or 11, Foxton would not govern or regulate its rest and sleep * by the flicker of the "billiard lights. Thanking you for space. — I am ; etc., ;. . . E. Ball. - [Fate hourshave dimmed the per- ’’ ; ceptive faculties of our respected correspondent. Let us reiterate J’-Sj; ’ in a more simple manner our jlrevious remarks. The Council *j were discussing the licensing of billiard saloons. A, resolution ‘}\ was proposed by Cr Baker, seconded by Cr Stiles, that the hour for closing be 10 p.m. Cr I’- ',• Gray proposed, and Cr Wilson y\j- seconded an amendment that 11 • p.m. be the hour of closing. :Vi" The AMENDMENT was - cartied, and the resolution was lost. V Now whose asleep ? What ob- . tained in reference to tbe clos--1 ing hour in the past has no Br on the cases, andfurther, 1 has adduced no argu--1 the above flapdoodle in t of 11 o’clock licenses. —