THE WAIROA BOTTLE LICENSE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE PATE A MAIL. Sir.—As I find my application to the Paten, Licensing Court for a Bottle "License is causing many persons, and amongst others, your correspondent “ Limb of the Law,” considerable uneasiness, I hope you will allow me -pace to inform all parties taking an interest in the matter, that although I applied to the Court for such a license, and it was granted by them, neither '• Limb of the Law nor any other person need make himself at all uneasy on my account, as I am already, and have been for years, doing a good wholesale spirit business': in the course of which T am well able to dispose of the very extensive stock I am supposed to have laid in, in anticipation of the Bottle License. Since applying for the Bottle License, it has come to my knowledge that the Court granted it under a mis-apprehension, and having considered this, and also the fact that the publicans in the Province of Wellington pay a heavy fee for a license in a Province in which no bottle license* are provided for, I have concluded it would not bo fair either to the Licensing Court or the Publicans to take up a license under such circumstances. I have therefore not made any application for it to the Provincial Treasurer.
I cannot conclude this without remarking that it does seem absurd that different laws should exist in different parts of the same R.M. districts, and that what is legitimate at Patea should be a breach of the law at, Wairoa. and I think it would \ e more becoming in Limb of the Law ” if, instead of writing tirades against the unfortunate magistrates, who have to administer such Provincial absurdities, he would turn his attention o the real cause of the mistakes into which magistrates occasionally fall, viz,, Provincial Legislation. Who can give one sound reason why one uniform system of licensing should not be adopted all over the Colony, as affecting the sale of liquor, auctioneering, and everything else that is usually carried on under a license. 1 am. Sir,
THE APPLICANT FOR THE BOTTLE LICENSE.
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Patea Mail, Volume 1, Issue 21, 23 June 1875, Page 2
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364THE WAIROA BOTTLE LICENSE. Patea Mail, Volume 1, Issue 21, 23 June 1875, Page 2
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