MR. DUFF'S HOTEL.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW ZEALAND TIMES. Sir, -In your article of this morning you complain of licenses having been withheld from the Princess Theatre Hotel, the Tramway Terminus Hotel, and Mr. Duff's Hotel in Cuba-street, and you add that, "if the hotels we have mentioned could have been shown to have been unnecessary, we could have understood the decisions of the Licensing Bench on Tuesday." I can only speak regarding the latter house, but of it I know that in every instance the license applied for has been met by the most stringent opposition from the inhabitants surrounding it. In the present instance a petition was in the Court. lam not aware whether it was read, but it was signed by 177, being at least nine-tenths of the whole adult population, male and female, comprised within a circle of 300 yards surrounding the house. I fail to see the justice or propriety of foisting a public-house upon a community who are almost unanimously determined against it. —T am, &c, One of the Subsciubeks.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5215, 8 December 1877, Page 3
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178MR. DUFF'S HOTEL. New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5215, 8 December 1877, Page 3
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