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HOW ARE LICENSES GRANTED UNDER THE NEW ACT?

(To the Editor of the Mount Ida Chkonicle.)

Sib, —Will you be kind enough to allow space in your columns for the following : 1 'X I came to the Hogburn about eleven years ago. I was engaged in mining for * several years, and held shares in various mining speculations. I succeeded, by hard scraping, in saving a little money. My next venture was to marry—in the year 1866. Of course I had not been married over ten month* when I was a father. So my wife said, one day, that, if I would try'to get a house in the town, she could help me to make a living. In view of this, the next thing I did was to buy James Spedderi out of the Kyeburn Hotel, over six years since. At that time i( this hotel was nothing but a shed. , Well, I gave one hundred and thirty pounds sterling for that shed. Well, since then ; ,my . family has increased to four, and I i ( , have, from time to time laid out in improvements all the money I have made, until, tlie Kyeburn Hotel has cost me over £soo—exclusive of the £l3O I. paid for the shed. Now by attention to business and economy, I am trying to keep my wife and children as respectable as possible; and not Only that, but I have helped to make the township of Naseby, in many ways, as . well as my neighbors—l have never been backward in coming forward—and I think ifc would be as well for the country if the Government were; to allow some recompense to .those .whom they have injured—not . only injured, but ruined. Another thing, I should like to know where the line ,is drawn, or distinction made, between, my ,ihouseland.ithe .houses -of my fellow publicans, that, they should have the " fatted calf " any more than me. My house has been kept and conducted as well as other houses, then why,take the bread out of tny childrens' mouths and give it to others? ./ I see by the Dunedin papers that there all.the licenses were granted, with the exception of very, bad cases and those who had no accommodation whatever, i In conclusion, I would ask : Why has my house not been allowed the same hours as my neighbors' houses ?—I am, &c., Geo bob A. Chapman, < 1 Kyeburn Hotel.

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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 269, 1 May 1874, Page 3

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HOW ARE LICENSES GRANTED UNDER THE NEW ACT? Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 269, 1 May 1874, Page 3

HOW ARE LICENSES GRANTED UNDER THE NEW ACT? Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 269, 1 May 1874, Page 3

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