CORRESPONDENCE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 286, 3 December 1877, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

A MEW HOTEL LICENSE. To the Editor of the 'Evening Mail.' Siß—-An attempt wili be made on Thursday to obtain a publican's license for a new house adjoining the Odd-Eellows' Hall. Apart from tyc grjpe and aerioua objection that exists to ,the facfe/yip pf drinking houses in the city — for ho fact is more fully and unmistakably established '.'than ,_sat $_, fhe facilities for obtaining drink are multiplied, 59 <-,9 drunkenness and its unfailing res'ults increase —in tha^ case .here cannot be a shadow of a 'plea that the bouse will be needed for $ny accon^modata^n ifc will afford *■ *»<- public, 2.9 withip a gunshot art) 1 """ *"»ced somtS half dozen hotel's, wh^c already pii ._ - -«*i SOHg w^y g drink-shop there are special .. ---■. foeallty, "sff*t, should not be opened in ttw Z^J W it is m close proximity to two chui.. ' , Cong regational and All Saints; its back entrance, which in this case is expected to be ' the most valuable one, opens directly upon I

the gatea of the latter church. I understand thafc both Archdeacon Thorpe and the Rev Mr Beckenham are strongly opposed to it. Further, the chief inducement to open a house in this place should, I venture to think, apart from every other objection, be sufficient '-to prevent the Licensing Bench granting the license— i.e., its proximity to the Odd-Fellows' Lodge, as a ready and convenient trap to catch the members, and more especially the expectation that the new Hall will be more than ever used for public entertainments. The moral sentiment of fche city will be outraged, if I mistake not, if such a barefaced attempt to decoy the unwary and weak is sanctioned by the Bench. I am, &c, Public Decenct. Nelson, December 3, 1877.