ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 8 October 1880, Page 2

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

TQ THE EDITOR OF THE OAMARU MAIL. SiKj—Your persistant efforts to root out sly-grog shanties in Oamaru encourages me "to ask you to employ your powerful pen in endeavoring to root out of this township one of those curses of colonial settlement—-bottlelicensed stores. I refer to the store S,rst kept by J. B.eattie, and afterward,? by % Qrady. As this miserable shanty has already publicly figured in the Resident Magistrate's Court, your. paper are likely to be j a,ware of the existence, and . character of this den of iniquity and demoralisation. Some two months' ago the usual curse in such case's overtook the proprietor. He left his store. Since "h.is retirement the store has been in hands of a respectable Oamaru firm,. "vyh° have strictly, refused to exercise their privilege under the bottle licenses; To anyone resident in the p.eighb.orhoodj thg 'change has been so ■. ...-US' .j" ' : iv U-i }

manifest for the general good that great regret is expressed by-all lovers of order and morality, owing to the fact that tho store has now been leased by a party lv j, rt is reported to bo a nian that will not scruple to "drive a trade," and who it said, has leased the store solely on account of the bottle license attached to it. Now Mr. Editor, is it possible to prevent a transfer of the license. Here we are f a » from police protection and overlooking and the orgies that we have so often Been indulged in on Sundays about this infamous shanty make us fear that at no distant time a more serious tragedy than the Haggie accident will bo associated with the history of the Reidston store if - allowed to exist in the future as it has been in the past—a sly grog-shantv —T am, &c.j PROTEST.