THE SUPPRESSION OF SLY-GROG SELLING.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE OAMARtT MAIL. Sir, —Will you allow me a small space in your valuable paper to point out a means by which, sly-grog selling could be a groat extent put down. It has attained to a height in this town which demands the exaction of the strongest measures to crush it out. The police are utterly powerless to prevent it. The Good Templars and Total Abstinence Societies fail to find any antidote or assistance towards its prevention. The Magistracy sit with folded hands, having no power to act. Informing is too dangerous and despicable a business to find candidates for "the office. The licensed victuallers themselves cannot protect their trade, and are obliged to grin and bear the daily loss sustained as best they may. Drinking dens, yclept boarding houses, spring/
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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 913, 20 March 1879, Page 2
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